Following Cambodia, Gangdong-gu Public Health Center visited Bolivia for benchmarking maternal care... Sharing best practices in maternal and child health projects such as Seoul Baby Health First Step and Prenatal Care for Pregnant Women
Gangdong-gu Public Health Center is gaining international attention for its pregnancy and childbirth support policies.
Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Suhee) announced that on the 30th of last month, officials from the Bolivian Ministry of Health, including the director of the Korea Hospital in El Alto, Bolivia, visited Gangdong-gu Public Health Center for benchmarking purposes.
This is the second overseas benchmarking case following a visit by high-ranking Cambodian officials in May. The visit by the Bolivian Ministry of Health officials was part of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Bolivia Obstetrics Management Intensive Training Support Project, aimed at learning and sharing experiences of Gangdong-gu’s advanced projects in maternal and child health, such as Seoul Baby Health First Steps, postpartum care expense support for mothers, and prenatal care for pregnant women.
On the day, Gangdong-gu Public Health Center introduced the operational status of major health facilities in Gangdong-gu and held a briefing session explaining excellent health projects such as ’Moving Classroom, Healthy School,’ a project promoting healthy lifestyle practices among students and creating a healthy school environment, and the ’Health 100-Year Counseling Center,’ where professional nurses reside at community service centers to prevent chronic diseases and manage residents’ health.
Additionally, the visitors toured key public health center facilities including the Health Management Center, Children’s Health Park, Infant Room, and Nutrition Plus Counseling Room.
The Bolivian officials showed deep interest in Gangdong-gu’s health projects by asking various questions about ▲the roles of Korean public health medical institutions (such as public health centers), ▲Gangdong-gu and public health center priority projects, ▲the main age groups using the Health Management Center, ▲key maternal and newborn support projects conducted in Seoul, and ▲policies for women of childbearing age.
Choi Jungsoo, director of the Public Health Center, said, “Gangdong-gu is implementing differentiated childbirth and parenting policies and health projects to the extent that it received the Minister of Health and Welfare Award on the 12th Population Day,” adding, “We hope this benchmarking will serve as an opportunity to help reduce infant mortality rates in Bolivia, improve the health of mothers and infants, and enhance the medical environment.”
The district expects to widely promote Gangdong-gu’s projects and enhance its status as a healthy city through successive overseas benchmarking visits, and plans to further activate exchanges with other overseas cities in the future.
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