The Japanese government will donate medical equipment worth 1.148
billion yen (about US$10 million) to hospitals in southwest China's
Chongqing
Municipality for use in maternal and child health care.
Long Yongtu, chief negotiator of the Chinese Ministry of
Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and Japanese
Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami signed the notes exchanged
between the governments of the two countries in Beijing Monday.
The Chinese government has made great efforts to improve the health
care services for women and children but, in the world's most
populous country, those in less developed areas of west and central
China still do not have an easy access to medical services, said a
MOFTEC official.
The improvement of medical services in Chongqing, the only
municipality directly under the central government in west China,
will set a good example for other areas in the region, he
added.
(
March 5, 2002)