» Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute organizes a camp for leaders of the liver fluke disease and cholangiocarcinoma problem mitigation project under the Kantarawichai Model (975 Views)

October 7, 2020 at Rachawadee Resort and Hotel, Khon Kaen – Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University organized a workshop and camp of the changing leaders for solving problems in liver fluke disease and cholangiocarcinoma, the Model District: Kantarawichai Model. The objective is to build leaders who will work for the solution of liver fluke disease and cholangiocarcinoma problems in the are of Kantarawichai District, Maha Sarakham in order to reduce the rate of patients infected with liver flukes to less than 1% within 3 years and to encourage the first-stage patients to receive medical treatment. The opening ceremony of the workshop was joined by Assoc. Prof. Narong Khanteekaew, M.D., Director of Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute, who welcomed participants to the workshop, while Dr. Hasacha Nuaythong, Deputy Public Health Officer of Maha Sarakham who conveyed the opening speech and briefed about the strategic decade plans to eradicate liver flukes and cholangiocarcinoma (2016-2025).

Assoc. Prof. Narong Khanteekaew, M.D., Director of Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute explained, “Liver fluke disease and cholangiocarcinoma kill Isan people every year, at about 20,000 people each year. Therefore, the problems are a big obstacle to the national development. They require collaboration from all parts, including the people, the government and the private sector. We all have to campaign for the prevention and solution of the diseases by different methods such as making fish free of worms and making food safe to eat, managing the hygiene system, building awareness among the youths by incorporating the notion in the curricula at schools, screening the risk group and caring the patients. All of these should be integrated and implemented in parallel so that the problems can be solved and the diseases gone from Thailand.”

 

News/Photo: Panithan Sribuenrueng

Compiled by Prowsaeng Poosinghar

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