Tsai inaugurates new building at Hengchun Tourism Hospital
Tsai inaugurates new building at Hengchun Tourism Hospital
2023-12-21
President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday went south to Pingtung for the inauguration of a new building at the Hengchun Tourism Hospital. The building contains the first MRI scanner and first hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber in the Hengchun Peninsula. Tsai said she hoped the building would help people in rural areas have better access to medical resources, to establish a medical safety net for Taiwan’s southernmost areas.
President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday headed south for the inauguration ceremony of a new medical building at the Hengchun Tourism Hospital. The plan for the facility was approved in 2017, by then-Premier Lin Chuan, and now the project is complete. But, in addition, to this, Tsai urged the Ministry of Health and Welfare to also set up a network of medical professionals across Pingtung.
Tsai Ing-wen
President
I’d like to ask the Ministry of Health and Welfare to help the Hengchun Tourism Hospital and appoint local specialist teams. After all, we have this new building, so it should be filled with good physicians. I hope it can strengthen cooperation with nearby hospitals, so that residents in the southernmost part of our country have equal access to medical resources. We hope to continue improving the medical resources and quality in this area.
Nearby Kenting attracts about 6 million tourists to the Hengchun Peninsula every year. The new medical building is equipped with the peninsula’s first MRI scanner and hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. The Ministry of Health and Welfare says that starting next year, it will also have a cardiac catheterization room.
Victor Wang
Deputy minister of health
Now we have introduced the first MRI scanner in the Hengchun Peninsula, and a brand-new hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. I think the main thing here is that now the people in southern Pingtung will not have to be redirected elsewhere for acute and critical care. This is an important milestone, a new start for the Hengchun Tourism Hospital to take on new responsibilities.
The government has taken care to improve medical resources in the area, so that patients with severe conditions can get treatment locally. That is hoped to reduce the risks associated with transportation to other centers, as well as general inconvenience. The building shows Tsai is making good on her promise to take care of her hometown, Pingtung.
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恆春旅遊醫院新大樓啟用 蔡總統:落實醫療平權
2023-12-21
總統蔡英文上午到屏東 ，出席恆春旅遊醫院新醫療大樓啟用典禮，新大樓配置了恆春第一台核磁共振等的醫療設備，總統蔡英文要求衛福部，必須要落實醫療平權，打造國境之南的醫療安全網。這也是小英總統對故鄉的承諾，終於在她任內實踐。
總統蔡英文專程南下，主持恆春旅遊醫院新醫療大樓啟用典禮，打從2017年，前行政院長林全拍板定案，以醫學中心為目標，終於完工啟用，除了硬體之外，蔡總統也要求衛福部要落實屏南醫療安全網。
[[總統 蔡英文]]
“我要請衛福部協助旅遊醫院，充實在地的專科團隊，因為樓蓋了總是要有好醫師嘛，強化跟鄰近醫院的合作，為我們的國境之南落實醫療平權，持續的提升這個區域醫療環境和品質”
尤其墾丁每年吸引約六百萬觀光客到恆春半島，新的醫療大樓配置了恆春第一台核磁共振，高壓氧艙等設備。衛福部次長也允諾，明年要完成心導管室。
[[衛福部次長 王必勝]]
“我們現在已經進駐的第一台恆春第一台的MRI，還有全新的高壓氧，我想最主要就是希望我們屏南的民眾，他在急重症醫療上面不用所有的都後送，我想這個是重要的里程碑，對於恆春旅遊醫院來講也是責任的開始”
深耕在地醫療能量，尤其急重症病患就以就地接受治療，降低後送的風險與不便，這也是小英總統對故鄉的承諾，終於在她任內實踐。
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