Ten Sri Lankan medical practitioners including three doctors and seven nurses from the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) affected areas finished a 2-month training program at Peking University First Hospital (PUFH) in Beijing. The commencement ceremony of the Training Program was held on Dec. 12, 2019. For two months, the trainees got full time training in the hemodialysis center, the nephrology ward and the peritoneal dialysis center of the PUFH, one of the best hospitals in China.
As a training program lasting for the third consecutive year, the training program was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in an attempt to help tackle the CKDu issue in Sri Lanka. The program has trained thirty medical practitioners for Sri Lanka up to now.
Please find the following report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) “Training Program 2019 for Sri Lankan Medical Practitioners in Nephrology held in Beijing”
Training Program 2019 for Sri Lankan Medical Practitioners in Nephrology held in Beijing
Ten Sri Lankan medical practitioners including three doctors and seven nurses from the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) affected areas finished a 2-month training program at Peking University First Hospital (PUFH) in Beijing. The commencement ceremony of the Training Program was held on Dec. 12, 2019. For two months, the trainees got full time training in the hemodialysis center, the nephrology ward and the peritoneal dialysis center of the PUFH, one of the best hospitals in China.
As a training program lasting for the third consecutive year, the training program was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in an attempt to help tackle the CKDu issue in Sri Lanka. The program has trained thirty medical practitioners for Sri Lanka up to now. Professor Min Yang, the Deputy Director General of Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences(RCEES) of CAS, Professor Minghui Zhao, the Director of Institute of Nephrology, Peking University and Ms. Jianting Su from the Beijing Center for Diseases Prevention and Control (BJCDC) attended the ceremony. Associate Professor of PUFH, Liqiang Meng hosted the ceremony.
As the Principal Investigator of CKDu causes study Program supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Prof. Min Yang stressed in his speech that there is a serious shortage of renal professionals in the CKDu affected areas in Sri Lanka. So RCEES arranged the medical practitioners to accept systemic training from Renal Division of PUFH. but also deepens the cooperation and exchanges & friendship between China and Sri Lanka.
Prof. Minghui Zhao made a further introduction to the kidney disease education system of the Renal Division, PUFH. The Renal Division, PUFH has become a recognized professional base for training academic backbones at home and abroad. Education in nephrology includes undergraduate, graduate, continuing education and specialist training. In recent years, the kidney disease education system of Renal Division, PUFH has been internationalized gradually. In 2017, Renal Division, PUFH became the regional training center of the international society of nephrology, officially receiving visiting scholars from Asia, including 30 trainees of Sri Lankan Medical Practitioners in Nephrology these years. Finally, he congratulated 10 trainees with the successful completion of the Training Program, and sincerely wished that more and more Sri Lankan Medical practitioners in Nephrology accept the learning and training in Renal Division, PUFH. Exchanges and Cooperation between Chinese and Sri Lankan Medical practitioners will be making contributions to the field of nephrology in the world prospectively.
Dr. Asela and Dr. Gajanayake addressed as representatives on behalf of the 10 trainees. They expressed their gratitude to the teachers and tutors from the Renal Division of PUFH and CAS for their comprehensive guidance, selfless teachings and remarkable inspirations that gifted them during the past two months.
The training program for doctors, nurses and technicians of Sri Lanka in the field of Nephrology is sponsored by RCEES, CAS and commissioned by PUFH, and is financially supported from the Program of China-Sri Lanka Joint Center for Water Technology Research and Demonstration of the CAS. In each training program for 2-month, 10 nephrological practitioners including doctors, nurses and technician from the CKDu affected areas of Sri Lanka are selected by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine (MoH), Sri Lanka based on the MoU signed between the MoH and the CAS in 2016. All costs of these Sri Lankan nephrological trainees including return air ticket, accommodation and food are covered by the training program. Till now 30 nephrological practitioners finished their training, and 20 of them back Sri Lanka are now using the new knowledge and technology to improve diagnosis and treatment of CKD and CKDu patients.
For more information, please contact Prof. Yuansong Wei(yswei@rcees.ac.cn) or Dr. Ning Liu(nliu@cashq.ac.cn)
