Published On May 10th, 2018, H.E. Clinical Professor Emeritus Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Minister of Public Health of Thailand signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dr. Teerakiat Jareonsettasin, Minister of Education Ministry of Education of Thailand, Dr. Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai, Director General of Department of Disease Control, and Professor Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital on the Academic Collaborative Project “UNITE to END Tuberculosis” at the Ministry of Public Health Thailand, Nonthaburi province.
The project signifies the collaboration between public sectors to work together on stopping Tuberculosis and Multidrug-resistant TB according to the global roadmap launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs by the United Nations (UN). The project under the National Action Plan (2017 – 2021) has been endorsed by the cabinet of Thailand to call for “multisectoral action from all sectors” to end the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Multidrug-Resistant TB.
The MOU highlighted 6 significant actions: 1.) Establishment of TB and Multidrug-resistant TB patient’s database; 2.) Holding the workshop for TB related personnel domestical and international; 3.) Development and establishment of the Excellence Center for Tuberculosis for the countries in Mekong Region; 4.) Improvement of the TB screening system, code of conduct in the hospital; 5.) Promotion of diagnostic systems and medical care for TB’s patient in the rural areas; and 6.) A collaboration of research, technology, innovation, and preventive measure in TB and Multidrug-resistant TB’s patients.
