Mongolia

Fol­low­ing the rec­om­men­da­tions of the final eval­u­a­tion and on the basis of a request by the Mon­go­lian author­i­ties, a for­mu­la­tion man­date was issued at the begin­ning of 2022, allow­ing the devel­op­ment of a new inter­ven­tion in the field of car­di­ol­o­gy, car­dio-surgery and telemed­i­cine in Mon­go­lia. Like pre­vi­ous phas­es, the imple­men­ta­tion of the new pro­gramme will again focus on sup­port­ing the ten-year State Pol­i­cy on Health (2017−2026).

With a bud­get of EUR 5 mil­lion and a dura­tion of five years, this new project start­ed in Octo­ber 2022, with the same part­ners — the Shastin hospital/​National Car­diac Cen­tre and Luxembourg’s Nation­al Insti­tute for Inter­ven­tion­al Car­diac Surgery and Car­di­ol­o­gy (INC­CI) — and adopt­ed the same inter­ven­tion meth­ods as before. The new project seeks to con­sol­i­date car­dio­vas­cu­lar ser­vices in Mon­go­lia and to strength­en and insti­tu­tion­alise the Nation­al Car­di­ol­o­gy Cen­tre (NCC). The future pro­gramme will focus sole­ly on sup­port and tech­ni­cal assis­tance, leav­ing the Mon­go­lian coun­ter­part with the high­est pos­si­ble degree of autonomy.

Hav­ing cel­e­brat­ed, in 2021, the 45^th anniver­sary of the estab­lish­ment of diplo­mat­ic rela­tions with Mon­go­lia, Min­is­ter Fay­ot vis­it­ed Mon­go­lia in July 2022 for his first work­ing vis­it. The mis­sion pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate the 20^th anniver­sary of bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion and, specif­i­cal­ly, the project fund­ed by Lux­em­bourg in the Mon­go­lian car­dio­vas­cu­lar sec­tor, and also to sign new bilat­er­al and mul­ti­lat­er­al agree­ments. The del­e­ga­tion also had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to vis­it both a cen­tral provin­cial hos­pi­tal and a dis­trict hos­pi­tal (soum) in the province of Khuvsgul.