Thai Binh province records fruitful health cooperation with Denmark: official
A senior official of the northern province of Thai Binh highlighted the productive cooperation in healthcare with Denmark while meeting with a visiting delegation of the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health on March 5.
Danish Minister of the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde Jacobsen (second from right) and the delegation visit the Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy on March 5. (Photo: VNA)
Thai Binh (VNA) – A senior official of the northern provinceof Thai Binh highlighted the productive cooperation in healthcare with Denmarkwhile meeting with a visiting delegation of the Danish Ministry of the Interiorand Health on March 5.
Providing a brief introduction of Thai Binh, Vice Chairwoman ofthe provincial People’s Committee Tran Thi Bich Hang said her province has anevenly developed healthcare system with many quality training and treatmentinstitutions. Recently, the local health sector has applied many new and moderntechniques to treatment, thus helping improving public healthcare andprotection.
In particular, she noted, the strategic health cooperationprogrammes on non-communicable diseases between Vietnam and Denmark,implemented on a trial basis in Thai Binh, has entered the second phase andreaped positive results, helping better grassroots health workers’ capacity aswell as local healthcare conditions.
Hangvoiced her hope that the Danish ministry will continue promoting cooperationactivities in the province in the time to come.
For her part, Danish Minister Sophie Løhde Jacobsen said hercountry is strong at preventive medicine and public healthcare quality.
Given the cooperation results gained so far, she expressed thewillingness to continue enhancing partnerships in and improving theeffectiveness of non-communicable disease prevention and control between ThaiBinh and Denmark.
Laterthe same day, the Danish delegation visited the Thai Binh University of Medicineand Pharmacy, including the Thai Binh Medical University Hospital. This is theonly training establishment in the province carrying out a research project onchronic disease management in coordination with the University of Copenhagenand the University of Southern Denmark.
SophieLøhde Jacobsen spoke highly of Denmark’s cooperation programmes in Thai Binh,adding that she believes the quality of grassroots healthcare and the province’shealth system at large will receive more attention and develop further in thecoming time./.
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Danish Minister of the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde Jacobsen (second from right) and the delegation visit the Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy on March 5. (Photo: VNA) 
