Authorities from the Yucatan government met with the Japanese ambassador in Mexico and with the director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
On July 11, the entity's governor, Mauricio Vila, held a meeting with the ambassador Takashi Manabe and the director of JICA, Hajime Tsuboi, in which they discussed issues such as the development of new telemedicine projects in Yucatan.
In recent years, through its cooperation agency, Japan has promoted various telemedicine projects in Latin America in countries such as Peru or Uruguay. In Mexico, it is supporting tasks to strengthen the capacity to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients, and other diseases within the Intensive Care Units at the Valladolid Hospital and the Agustín O'Horán Hospital in Mérida.
Since July of last year, the authorities of Yucatan and Japan signed an agreement to develop a strategy that seeks to improve the medical care of the population and the care of patients in intensive care. In this way, Japan donated medical and telemedicine equipment to the aforementioned hospitals. The telemedicine equipment consists of a remote monitoring system and specific telemedicine equipment for the ICU.
In addition to the ICU telemedicine equipment, they will also have mobile digital X-ray machines, electrocardiograms, mobile ventilators, central monitors, among other equipment that favors medical care.
It is worth mentioning that the Japanese researcher Hideyo Noguchi contributed more than 100 years ago to discovering the virus that causes yellow fever, precisely by conducting studies at the O'Horán Hospital in Mérida.
