A short film spotlighting the ways Taiwan Can Help realize the World Health Organization’s goal of Health For All amid the COVID-19 pandemic and saluting front-line health care workers for International Year of Health and Care Workers was released May 6 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to the MOFA, over 300 foreign nationals have traveled to Taiwan for medical treatment during the pandemic. The film shows why the WHO should facilitate Taiwan’s full participation in all the U.N. special agency’s activities, mechanisms and meetings and invite the country to take part in the upcoming 74th World Health Assembly to be held virtually May 24 to June 1, the ministry said.
“The Gift of a Great Adventure” documents the story of 21-month-old Ng Zi-heng from New Southbound Policy target country Malaysia, who traveled 3,000 km to Taiwan with his parents in search of treatment for acute leukemia in November 2019. It also demonstrates Taiwan’s capacity to offer critical life-saving medical care to individuals while other health care systems around the world struggled under the strain of COVID-19.
In a tweet on its official Twitter account, the MOFA said: “In the International Year of Health & Care Workers, we salute those on the medical front lines with ‘The Gift of a Great Adventure.’ Watch our short video & see #Taichung Veterans General Hospital staffers defy the odds in saving a child with acute leukemia. Yes! #TaiwanCanHelp”
The short is available on the MOFA’s Trending Taiwan YouTube channel, as well as affiliated social media platforms, with subtitles in Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese.
A key plank in the government’s national development strategy, the NSP seeks to enhance Taiwan’s agricultural, business, cultural, education, tourism and trade ties with the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states, six South Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand. (DL-E)
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