YANGON----The Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) will be participating in capacity building of communicable diseases including preliminary healthcare services.

The KOFIH will hold a ceremony to hand over the Microwave Waste Management Unit to the Ministry of Health and Sports on November 27th .

Moreover, the Republic of Korea donated over 40,000 COVID-19 Antigen Test Kits to Myanmar through ASEAN-KOREA Cooperation Fund aiming to set up for preventing measures against COVID-19 disease.

The donation ceremony of Antigen Test Kits was held in Nay Pyi Taw on November 16th and it was attended by the Union Minister for Health and Sports.

He expressed thanks for KOFIH’s medical supplies and other Korean organizations’ continuous aids. Moreover, the Korean government had provided Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Test Kits and medical supplies as well as personal protective equipment suits worth US$ 3million to Myanmar.

Myanmar is now carrying out prevention measures against non-communicable disease after laying down the National Level Strategy 2017-2021. The strategy was drawn by the Ministry of Health and Sports and The Defeat-NCD Partnership since the beginning of March and it was completed in September.

The outbreak of non-communicable disease and its death toll already raises around the world including Myanmar. The 62% of death toll rate of the hospitals in Myanmar is the cause of non-communicable disease.

That’s why the Ministry of Health and Sports is now carrying out preventive measures against non-communicable disease. If there are no efforts, the non-communicable disease will become a non-controllable public health problem starting from 5 years to 10 years. 

With the aim to treat the patients of non-communicable disease, most percent of medical funds must be used, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.