Shija offers continuation of Smile Train Project in Myanmar
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Imphal, November 21 2013: As part of the Myanmar official team's visit to the state to witness The Sangai Festival, the team which consisted of Chief Minister of Sagaing Division U Thar Aye and Mandalay Chief Minister U Ye Mynt along with other delegates today visited Shija Hospitals and Research Institute at Langol here.

The Myanmarese team was accompanied by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi and other ministers of the state who had received them at the Imphal international airport which started functioning from today along with arrival of a Golden Myanmar flight carrying a total of 165 Myanmarese passengers to witness the Sangai festival of Manipur.

Some in the Myanmarese team have come to the state as business delegates who will be opening stalls in the festival venue.

From the visit of the officials of the hospital authority led by its Managing Director Dr.Kh.

Palin, the Myanmar team learned that thousands of Myanmarese Nationals have undergone treatments at Shija Hospitals as it is relatively cheaper compared to Bangkok, Singapore or other metropolitan cities of India.

The hospital believes in India's Look East Policy which will enhance the socio-cultural relationship between Manipur and Myanmar through exchange of health care knowledge and facilities.

With many advanced techniques of treatment already available at Shija Hospitals, many more facilities like treatment for cardiac science, kidney and cornea transplantations, joint replacement, assisted human reproduction, anti-ageing medicine and wellness park for medical tourism are bound to be introduced in the near future, the hospital authority added.

The hospital has been invited by Myanmar for a second Mission Myanmar in December 2013, the first Mission Myanmar which already had taken place in May 2013 .

The hospitals will perform not only free cleft lip and palate surgeries but also 200 free cataract surgeries to which the Manipur Chief Minister has already consented.

The authority presented before the Myanmar visitors some proposals which included continuation of free cleft and palate surgery under Smile Train Shija Cleft Project at multiple places of Myanmar as more than 10,000 populations of Myanmarese are estimated to be suffering with this deformity, free eye care (PHACO Cataract surgery) through Shija Eye Care Foundation, free key-hole surgeries for treatment of stone diseases of gall bladed and kidneys through AMASI (Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India), setting up of a number of Shija Information Centres in various towns of Myanmar to facilitate information, transportation and logistic support for patients to undergo treatment at Shija, short term Myanmar doctors' and nurses' training, reservation of seats for GNM and paramedical courses for students, providing dedicated accommodation for Myanmar patients and their relatives in the Shija campus at highly subsidized rate and setting up of a specialized hospital in a suitable place in Sagaing Division on Public Private Partnership model.

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