News
11/15/2018 14:07
Deputy Prime Minister in
charge of European Affairs Bujar Osmani, in the role of National Coordinator
for allocation of foreign assistance in the Republic of Macedonia, together
with the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, together with the Ambassador of
Japan in the Republic of Macedonia, Keiko Haneda attended on the handing over
of the equipment and renovations provided with a grant by the Government of
Japan.
"It is a great pleasure
for me that today I have that honour, to host Her Excellency, the Ambassador of
Japan to the Republic of Macedonia, Keiko Haneda, here at the University Clinic
for Digestive Surgery, where I am still actively working. The satisfaction is
of course even greater, given the fact that with the selfless help of the
Government of Japan, as well as the unselfish commitment of her Excellency
Haneda, today we have these working conditions that you see here, and which are
of course the most important for our patients"- said Osmani, pointing out
the equipment and the renovations that the Institute for Respiratory Diseases
in Children - Kozle, as well as the University Clinic for Gynaecology and
Obstetrics received from the same grant.
Furthermore, Osmani pointed
out that since independence, Japan has provided a lot of support through
official development assistance in several important sectors, key to achieving
our reform processes and strategic goals such as health, education, development
of local communities in the amount of over 420 million euros, for which he
expressed special gratitude to the Government of Japan, but also personally to
Ambassador Haneda, for her personal contribution to the successful
implementation of this assistance.
Today at the university
clinics three projects were officially put into operation- part of a total of
nine for which in March this year contracts were signed within the Grant
Programme for small projects for basic human needs for which the Japanese
Government provided funds in the amount of 428,066 euros.