Thailand offers health training to Bhutan

BANGKOK, September 14 (TNA) – Thailand’s Praboromarajchanok Institute under the Public Health Ministry plans to dispatch its health experts and provide maternity and child health training to Bhutanese nurses in Bhutan next year. Dr. Apichart Rodsom director of the Institute, said three agencies including Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the United Nations Population Fund had agreed to support the Bhutanese public health ministry on developing the country’s maternity and child health by allocating a budget to the institute. The budget would be spent for providing training to Bhutanese nurse assistants between 2015 – 2017. Dr. Apichart said his institute had provided training to Bhutanese nurse assistants since 2012. The training which had been proven successful usually lasts between two to four weeks and was held in the northeastern province of Udon Thani and in Bangkok. So far, two groups comprising 42 Bhutanese had received training. Another group of 25 persons would receive similar training next month. Dr. Apichart said the training could help reduce the death rate of mothers and children in Bhutan by as much as 100% and his institute was planning to send experts to teach health officials in Bhutan for about one week in 2015. (TNA)