13 Mar 2023
It was learnt that the curriculums have been changed in accordance with result-based inter-professional teaching methods to meet international standards and inter-professional education and practical cooperation have been introduced to enable health workers to cooperate, Chairman of the State Administration Council Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said.
He made the comment at the opening ceremony of Myanmar Health Sciences Conference (2023) held at Myanmar International Convention Center II in Nay Pyi Taw at 8.30 am on 11 March.
Moreover, to nurture qualified healthcare human resources, 16 medical and medical science related institutes and 53 nursing and midwifery training schools have been opened and courses are conducted by reviewing their curriculums to fulfill the needs, the government increases budget allocations for the health sector yearly to enable people’s hospitals to provide healthcare services to emergency patients at any time, to provide necessary medicines, diagnosis and treatments to the people at low expenses as much as possible, to carry out maintenance and construction of hospitals so that the people can receive healthcare services conveniently and purchase modern medical equipment to provide quality treatments. In addition to construction of housing quarters for health workers, measures are being taken to provide cash rewards and other benefits to them, he said.
A new school admission system has been introduced since 2022 for institutes of medicine and institutes of dental medicine to select students who have passed matriculation examinations by scrutinizing whether they are truly interested in medical science, abide by medical ethics, want to perform duties in health field and can provide medical services out of compassion and goodwill.
At the symposium, health and medical experts from the Ministry of Health and health field, military medical experts from the medical corps of the Directorate of Medical Services under the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army), retired health experts and members of the medical corps, out-of-service doctors and medical experts from the Asia and Southeast Asia regions will give lectures and discussions.
