China's Ministry of Health and Bayer HealthCare have formally signed an agreement on the strategic partnership program of training ten thousand doctors in China's county level hospitals.
Qi Qingdong, deputy director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health, has signed the agreement with Liam Condon, managing director of Bayer HealthCare China. According to the agreement, in the coming five years, Bayer HealthCare will spend RMB20 million to train 10,000 doctors in 11 provinces in the middle and western part of China.
In the next five years, the two sides will train more than 10,000 doctors in 332 poor counties in 11 provinces including Gansu, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Tibet, Ningxia, Qinghai and Hainan. And the training will cover many different subjects, such as basic courses, professional courses, public courses, clinical practice, general guidance, internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, pedology and the technique of medical treatment.
