On the afternoon of March 9, the opening ceremony of the LZUFH-Madagascar Anosiala Teaching Hospital Respiratory Medicine Construction Project was held at the Yingfu Building. Hou Xiaoming, Vice Dean of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University (LZUFH), attended the ceremony. Also present were Liu Yatao, Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange; Yue Wei, Director of the Logistics Support Department; Zhao Jinsheng, Deputy Director of the Medical Affairs Office; Yao Jia, Deputy Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange; heads of the First and Second Wards of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; and responsible persons from the Medical Laboratory Center, Radiology Department, Infectious Diseases Department, as well as teaching mentors from relevant departments. The ceremony was chaired by Liu Yatao.

     In his address, Hou Xiaoming welcomed the five trainees from the Anosiala Teaching Hospital in Madagascar. He noted that since the director of Anosiala Teaching Hospital led a delegation to visit last year, both sides had signed the Trainee Training Agreement, and this training visit marks the translation of that agreement into concrete action. He expressed the hope that during the training, relevant hospital departments would closely align with the project's goals, helping the trainees transform theoretical knowledge into practical skills through hands-on teaching, thereby cultivating a lasting professional team in respiratory medicine for Madagascar.

    Dr. Rakotondravelina Lalaina, team leader of the trainees from Anosiala Teaching Hospital, expressed her gratitude to LZUFH. She stated that over the six-month training period, the trainees would actively learn from China's advanced experience in respiratory disease diagnosis and treatment as well as clinical radiology imaging techniques. They aim to systematically master the entire process of establishing a respiratory medicine department and, upon returning home, better establish a standardized respiratory disease diagnosis and treatment system that will truly benefit more patients in Madagascar.

    LZUFH is the only institution in Gansu Province approved for the "30 Sino-African Partner Hospital Cooperation Mechanism" project, specifically the "Respiratory Medicine Construction Project between China's First Hospital of Lanzhou University and Madagascar's Anosiala Teaching Hospital" Under the guidance of the Gansu Provincial Health Commission and with the support of the Chinese Medical Team to Madagascar, the hospital is accelerating the implementation of the project, contributing to the joint building of a China-Africa health community.

Edited by the Office of Foreign Affairs