2009 year Press Release
As indicated in the latest disease outbreak report of the World Health Organization, Zimbabwes Cholera outbreak since August 2008 is still spreading. With 79613 suspected cases, the outbreak has caused 3731 deaths. Due to the continued Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, TaiwanIHA and World Vision Taiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the transport of medical supplies to help relieve the outbreak in Zimbabwe. The medical supplies to combat Cholera were procured by the Taipei Liaison Office in the Republic of South Africa, where Dr. Lu Dou-young, the representative of Ministry of Health and Welfare in Africa held a formal donation ceremony on May 11th, 2009 and delivered the supplies to the local health center to alleviate local public health emergency.TaiwanIHA assists Zimbabwe in fighting Cholera outbreak
Since its inception in March 2006, TaiwanIHA has gained much experience in emergency medicine and public health relief. Besides working jointly with various public agencies in the execution of emergency rescue missions, TaiwanIHA successfully completed its first mission with local NGOs V Ling-Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation and the National Disaster Medical Assistance Team, to Myanmar in 2008, for typhoon disaster relief works. The signing of MOU with World Vision Taiwan, and cooperative efforts in delivering Cholera medicine to patients in Zimbabwe do not only extend the reach of TaiwanIHA in cooperation with international partners in the promotion of humanitarian relief and international health cooperation, but also to spread the love and mission of TaiwanIHA to all the corners of the world.
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