Two Taiwanese health experts share bird flu experiences with RI
JAKARTA (Antara): Two Taiwanese doctors are on a visit in Indonesia to share their experience in overcoming the spread of dengue fever and bird flu.
"No bird flu infection in humans has been found in Taiwan, and we will be happy to share our experience with Indonesia," Dr Hsu Yuan-Nian, inspector at Taiwan's Taichung Hospital, said here on Wednesday.
Dr Hsu Yuan-Nian, who was accompanied by Dr Happy Kuy-lok Tan, inspector of Taoyuan Hospital, was on a two-day visit in Indnoesia at the invitation of the Economic and Trade Office of Taiwan here.
Hsu said none of Taiwan's 23 million people had contracted bird flu thanks to an integrated health system in Taiwan.
Since January 2007, other Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and China, had been affected by the H5NI bird flu virus, he said.
He said there had been 226 cases of bird flu infection in these countries with the death rate reaching 60 percent.
According to Hsu, health insurance was covering 99 percent of Taiwan's citizens and there were about 400,000 foreigners.
Most of the foreigners from South East Asia were Indonesians, where about 49,419 visas were issued for Indonesians. (***)
JAKARTA (Antara): Two Taiwanese doctors are on a visit in Indonesia to share their experience in overcoming the spread of dengue fever and bird flu.
"No bird flu infection in humans has been found in Taiwan, and we will be happy to share our experience with Indonesia," Dr Hsu Yuan-Nian, inspector at Taiwan's Taichung Hospital, said here on Wednesday.
Dr Hsu Yuan-Nian, who was accompanied by Dr Happy Kuy-lok Tan, inspector of Taoyuan Hospital, was on a two-day visit in Indnoesia at the invitation of the Economic and Trade Office of Taiwan here.
Hsu said none of Taiwan's 23 million people had contracted bird flu thanks to an integrated health system in Taiwan.
Since January 2007, other Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and China, had been affected by the H5NI bird flu virus, he said.
He said there had been 226 cases of bird flu infection in these countries with the death rate reaching 60 percent.
According to Hsu, health insurance was covering 99 percent of Taiwan's citizens and there were about 400,000 foreigners.
Most of the foreigners from South East Asia were Indonesians, where about 49,419 visas were issued for Indonesians. (***)