AKIPRESS.COM - National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) Superintendent Ho Hong-nerng visited Mongolia to promote medical exchanges between Taiwan and Mongolia, reports Focus Taiwan.

Ho and Tsevegmid Tumur-Ochir, Chief of the Third Central State Hospital in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, co-hosted a ceremony to mark the initiation of an annual Taiwan-Mongolia medical exchange program at the Ulaanbaatar hospital.

As part of the NTUH-HOPE Taiwan-Mongolia Medical Exchange Program that was launched in 2009, NTUH began helping to train physicians from Mongolia and sending medical professionals there between June and September every year since 2010 to give clinical practice guidelines and help to provide medical treatment, according to the spokesman.

Under the cooperation program, around 80 physicians from Mongolia have received training at NTUH, while about 50 NTUH doctors have visited Mongolia to participate in the program.

In addition to Tuesday's ceremony, Ho also attended an academic seminar at the Third Central State Hospital that day. The following day, he signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the Mongolian hospital.

While in Mongolia, Ho will also visited other hospitals with cooperative ties with NTUH, including Mongolia's State Second Central Hospital, and met with local medical professionals to expand Taiwan-Mongolia medical exchanges and cooperation.