The story of a Vietnamese girl being helped by Taiwan’s medical experts tells the world that Taiwan should not be excluded from the WHO or WHA

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/03/31
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) —  A Vietnamese pupil suffers from Lymphangiomas,

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) releases a short film to call for Taiwan’s participation in the WHO (Photo courtesy of MOFA)

malformations of the lymphatic system, which causes one of her legs to swell several times bigger than the other and makes her unable to stand on her feet. By the time her parents have run out of methods to improve their daughter’s condition, a Taiwanese businessman lends a helping hand and sends her to Taiwan for advanced surgeries. Now the girl can walk to school by herself while enjoying the scenery of her family’s coffee bean farm on the way.

The story of the girl, Nguyen Thi Loan, is told through the three-and-a-half-minute film released by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on March 31. It is one of the approaches Taiwan attempts to show the world that the country should be allowed to participate in the World Health Organization (WHO) and its biggest annual conference the World Health Assembly (WHA).    [FULL  STORY]