National Health Laboratory Project launched

French Development Agency (AFD), European Union (EU) and Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) to collaborate on improving Myanmar’s ability to diagnose and manage infectious diseases

In the presence of the French Ambassador Christian Lechervy, EU Ambassador Kristian Schmidt, and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Sports, Prof. Dr. Thet Khine Win, the National Health Laboratory Project was launched in Yangon. The project will strengthen the country’s capacity to investigate any kind of disease and control emerging threats to the public health.

A significant number of diseases threaten public health in Myanmar: some of which are crossing borders from neighboring countries, while others are endemic. Until recently, the ability to diagnose and monitor these infectious diseases and epidemics was limited. Myanmar needed to rely on support from laboratories abroad.

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