THE Health Minister encouraged doctors last week to continue studying their areas of specialisation to provide more effective healthcare for the community.
Professor Dr Kyaw Myint said everyone in the medical field – including specialists, physicians, pathologists, microbiologists, physio-logists, pharmacologists and others – must continuously strive to improve their medical knowledge.

“Qualified and out-standing medical people are essential,” he said, adding that the ministry has provided postgraduate training courses in the country and has also sent trainees abroad to learn modern medical techniques.

He said it was important to increase the numbers of medical doctors in the country and also to improve their qualifications.

“Kidney transplants and other organ transplant operations have shown that Myanmar’s medical field is of increasingly high standard,” he said.

He also encouraged doctors to provide healthcare not only in Yangon and Mandalay but also in rural areas, and to maintain ethical standards.

The minister was speaking at the 13th Medical Specialities Conference organised by the Myanmar Medical Association at its headquarters in Yangon from November 10 to 13.

Fifteen of the 25 medical speciality societies under the association took part in the conference to encourage doctors to share knowledge and providing continuing medical education.

The conference, held every two years, was attended by high-level officials from the ministry, rectors and professors from medical teaching institutions and officials from Yangon hospitals.