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The second Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) meeting was held at Cho Ray Hospital on November 6.

The Project members of Cho Ray Hospital headed by Dr. Nguyen Truong Son, director of Cho Ray Hospital from Vietnamese side and the staff members of JICA headed by Ms. Nozomi Iwama, Senior Representative of JICA Viet Nam Office as well as the four long-term experts from Japanese side, gathered together in the meeting. Dr. Chiaki Miyoshi, Director of Department of Human Resources Development, Bureau of International Health Cooperation, NCGM also attended as an observer.

In the JCC meeting this time, the activities and the achievement of the outcome objectives of the Project since the first JCC in October of last year were reported by each member of Cho Ray Hospital and Japanese expert, and then approved by both Vietnamese and Japanese side.

In addition, JICA made a proposal to reschedule the implementation term of the Project in response to the progress situation of the construction plan for Cho Ray Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Hospital under the Japanese ODA loan. Specifically, dispatch of long-term expert will be temporarily stopped on the third year of the Project. After that, JICA will dispatch long-term experts again from the sixth year when the construction of Cho Ray Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Hospital is expected to complete.

In response to this proposal, Director Nguyen Truong Son expressed his approval. Both sides agreed to make a draft of the revised "Plan of Operation" by January 2019.

Director Son giving his opening remarks in JCC

Ms. Iwama delivering a speech in JCC

The counterparts reporting the Project activities

Commemorative photo with JCC members