Hospital built with S'pore help
June 12, 2009
KAYIN CHAUNG VILLAGE (MYANMAR): - Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong opened a village hospital here yesterday that Singapore had helped build, hailing it as a testimony to bilateral friendship and the Myanmar people's resilience.
'It is also a testimony to the close friendship between the governments and peoples of Singapore and Myanmar,' he said.
The 16-bed Kayin Chaung Station Hospital will serve about 10,000 people from the village and the surrounding areas.
The hospital was in the process of being built when Cyclone Nargis struck in May last year and disrupted construction work.
An emergency meeting of Asean foreign ministers held in Singapore, the Asean chair at the time, decided to set up a multilateral humanitarian assistance task force to help in Myanmar's recovery efforts.
Singapore sent a 24-member medical team with US$200,000 (S$290,000) in emergency relief supplies to the disaster zone in the area.
This team later recommended that the Singapore Government help complete the hospital, a recommendation which the Myanmar government approved.
'I am thankful that Prime Minister Thein Sein very quickly gave his support for Singapore to undertake the completion of the hospital, and that the Health and Foreign ministries facilitated Singapore's involvement at every stage,' said Mr Goh.
He also promised Myanmar that Singapore will continue to help in its post-Nargis recovery efforts.
He also said that Singapore strongly supported extending by another year, till July next year, the mandate of the multilateral humanitarian assistance group set up in the wake of the Asean meeting last year.
GOH CHIN LIAN
KAYIN CHAUNG VILLAGE (MYANMAR): - Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong opened a village hospital here yesterday that Singapore had helped build, hailing it as a testimony to bilateral friendship and the Myanmar people's resilience.
'It is also a testimony to the close friendship between the governments and peoples of Singapore and Myanmar,' he said.
The 16-bed Kayin Chaung Station Hospital will serve about 10,000 people from the village and the surrounding areas.
The hospital was in the process of being built when Cyclone Nargis struck in May last year and disrupted construction work.
An emergency meeting of Asean foreign ministers held in Singapore, the Asean chair at the time, decided to set up a multilateral humanitarian assistance task force to help in Myanmar's recovery efforts.
Singapore sent a 24-member medical team with US$200,000 (S$290,000) in emergency relief supplies to the disaster zone in the area.
This team later recommended that the Singapore Government help complete the hospital, a recommendation which the Myanmar government approved.
'I am thankful that Prime Minister Thein Sein very quickly gave his support for Singapore to undertake the completion of the hospital, and that the Health and Foreign ministries facilitated Singapore's involvement at every stage,' said Mr Goh.
He also promised Myanmar that Singapore will continue to help in its post-Nargis recovery efforts.
He also said that Singapore strongly supported extending by another year, till July next year, the mandate of the multilateral humanitarian assistance group set up in the wake of the Asean meeting last year.
GOH CHIN LIAN
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