{"id":1842,"date":"2007-11-02T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2007\/11\/02\/beijing-who-dis\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:48:23","slug":"beijing-who-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2007\/11\/beijing-who-dis.html","title":{"rendered":"Beijing WHO, Discussion on medical policy with Dr. Uzawa at Tokyo and blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/jp\/2007\/11\/whoblog_8294.html\">\u2192Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I arrived at Beijing from Abu Dhabi via Dubai on 24th October to participate in the conference of WHO Commission. This year&#8217;s conference was held at <a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2007\/01\/from_who_headqu.html\">Geneva in January<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/jp\/2007\/06\/vancouver_2acd.html\">Vancouver in June<\/a>.&nbsp; We are working hard towards the release of the final report which is scheduled next year. Things being at this phase, the programs were mainly closed sessions by the Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>On 24th, Vice Minister of Health that commensurate with Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan (Photo1) hosted dinner.&nbsp; The Vice Minister is a surgeon with specialization in liver transplantation etc.&nbsp; I hear that even today, he sometimes does surgeries in the hospitals. Dr. Chen Zhu, my old friend, whom I have known through IAP etc. for more than 5 years, is the Minister of Health. Unfortunately, we could not meet this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/typepad\/beijin012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beijin012\" height=\"172\" alt=\"Beijin012\" src=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/typepad\/beijin012.jpg\" width=\"230\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Photo1: Commissioner Yan Guo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/social_determinants\/strategy\/commissioners\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commission Chairman Sir Marmot<\/a>, Vice Minister of Health and myself<\/p>\n<p>26th was the final day of the conference.&nbsp; Late in the afternoon, many flights from Beijing airport were cancelled due to fog.&nbsp; Fortunately, my flight departed with just 1 hour delay and I reached Narita at 10:50 p.m.&nbsp; However, there was neither a bus, nor a train or a taxi at that time of a day.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t believe it!&nbsp; Is this an international airport in the capital of a country of &quot;Giant Economy&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>Next day 27th was a rainy Saturday as typhoon was approaching. I have attended the anniversary symposium of &quot;Life and Medical Sciences&quot; at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doshisha_University\" target=\"_blank\">Doshisha University<\/a> organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hirofumi_Uzawa\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Hirofumi Uzawa<\/a>, whom I very much respect (I have mentioned his name many times in this site, so please search it).&nbsp; Dr. Uzawa wrote a prospectous of the symposium \uff08<a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/typepad\/uzawa-symposium.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>\uff09which conveyed his great enthusiasm.&nbsp; In it, he mentioned about my &quot;University Hospital Revolution.&quot;&nbsp; I was happy, honored and shy at the same time.&nbsp; Not knowing so, I have arranged to give the book to all the participants so it turned out to be a good timing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/typepad\/uzawa013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Uzawa013\" height=\"172\" alt=\"Uzawa013\" src=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/typepad\/uzawa013.jpg\" width=\"230\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Photo2: With the always energetic Dr. Uzawa. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed talking with him.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, the speech of both Dr. Uzawa and myself (the beggining of my speech was also used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2007\/08\/from-helsinki.html\">Lecture at Helsinki<\/a> this August) was introduced in a <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/chikarablog\/entry-10052896891.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> (only in Japanese) very positively.&nbsp; I was glad and sent comments of gratitude to the writer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2192Japanese I arrived at Beijing from Abu Dhabi via Dubai on 24th October to participate in the conference of WHO Commission. This year&#8217;s conference was held at Geneva in January and at Vancouver in June.&nbsp; We are working hard towards the release of the final report which is scheduled next year. Things being at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,13,5,8,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}