The Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the National Center for Maternal and Child Health in Mongolia plan to expand their existing partnership through telemedicine to improve pediatric and maternal health in Mongolia.
Now that telemedicine technology is available in Mongolia, the two facilities on opposite sides of the planet can communicate more closely to expand their partnership in research and population health, according to a news release.
The collaboration, which began in 1995, aims to improve the overall health of children and mothers in the central Asian country. Children's Hospital Los Angeles physicians have traveled at their own expense to the National Center for Maternal and Child Health to treat cases in children's cancer, cardiology, infectious disease, intensive care, pulmonology, gastroenterology, pediatric general and orthopedic surgery, endocrinology, adolescent medicine and rheumatology, according to the news release.
Since the first CHLA visit, Mongolia's pediatric health has improved significantly. Mortality rate for children younger than five per 1,000 births has declined from 62.4 in 1995 to 18.4 in 2014, and infant mortality rate per 1,000 births fell from 44.6 percent in 1995 to 15.3 in 2014, according to the news release.