ABSTRACT
I was a JOCV(Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers)first generation of clinical nursing in Mongolia in 1998, and worked in the National 2nd hospital in capital of Mongolia, Ulan Bator, for two years. At there it was possible to know the Mongolian medical situation. There were 3 main problems, as follow: (1) Medical facilities were old, (2) Medical equipments were poor, (3) Medical textbooks were fewness. Expressly, I consider the nursing textbook and the teaching video with some medical workers the reason from the 3rd problem. I held the study class that used a nursing textbook for nurses in a hospital. In this report, the process of such action is important to get good cooperation of workers in a hospital, and necessary, the activity of a member of JOCV shows opinions to them, to get cooperation with them and do endeavor to know each other.
ABSTRACT
The Dispatch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), a program of Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), performed the 40th anniversary foundation in 2005. About half of 3,703 volunteers of the health and hygiene field dispatched by the end of August, 2004 are nurses. The tendencies of recent JOCV are increase of the number of volunteers based on liberal arts, increase of volunteers with high educational background and increase of the number of female volunteers.<br>The volunteers who live and work with local people do not remain in simple man power, but show a faithful work and a manner as a careerist. There are a problem to be able to see, discovery of a local method simply because they work among the people, and we should pay attention to a characteristic and the effectiveness of such a volunteers' activity more.<br>By investigation(n=397) for volunteer nurses, 36.5% receive higher education after return home. It is expected that volunteers study after return home and then engage in international health focusing on a public level as well as upper persons in developing countries.
ABSTRACT
Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) are really acting as independent pioneers rather than individual volunteers in their mundane lives in developing countries. Their passionate crusades spearhead an innovative betterment of the health and the society. Their natural practices and challenges reflect us how the international health development should be. In this feature section, we will face the gap between the reality and the hope in the genuine experiences of JOCV and will learn how the authors sprouted out their efforts under the mutual friendship.