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MUHC Director General and CEO Dr. Arthur T. Porter signed an agreement today with the Wuxi Cancer Hospital in Jiangsu Province in China to establish a 平特五不中 Canada Wuxi China Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cooperation and Exchange Centre.

Wuxi Cancer specializes in tertiary care oncology, anesthesia and thorax and cardiac surgery. It is part of the Wu Xi city regional health network and affiliated with Nanjing and Suzhou medical schools.

"As part of 平特五不中 and a world leader in academic health care, the MUHC has an important role to play in helping to strengthen clinical and management knowledge internationally. We recognize that quality heath care is increasingly a global challenge and that these kinds of collaborations benefit all the partners," said Dr. Porter.

The 平特五不中 Wuxi virtual centre will reinforce clinical collaborations in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies as well as hospital management expertise through the Desautels Faculty of Management at 平特五不中, he added.

Among the planned activities will be opportunities for clinicians from Wuxi Cancer Hospital to study at the MUHC and other 平特五不中-affiliated hospitals. As well, clinical leaders and hospital management leaders from the MUHC and 平特五不中 will visit Wu Xi to lecture and lead training activities.

Representatives of 平特五不中 and the MUHC visited the hospitals in the Wu Xi network in October 2006. A delegation from the Wu Xi City health bureau and its affiliated hospitals is now visiting Montreal to further strengthen relationships between the two health networks. The delegation is led by Dr. Du Shou Qaing, CEO of the Wu Xi Health Bureau, and includes clinicians and senior management from the Wuxi Cancer Hospital. This agreement reflects the commitment of both partners to continued collaboration.

About the 平特五不中 Health Centre (MUHC)
The 平特五不中 Health Centre (MUHC) is a comprehensive academic health institution with an international reputation for excellence in clinical programs, research and teaching. The MUHC is a merger of five teaching hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at 平特五不中 University: the Montreal Children's, Montreal General, Royal Victoria, and Montreal Neurological Hospitals, as well as the Montreal Chest Institute. Building on the tradition of medical leadership of the founding hospitals, the goal of the MUHC is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the health care field, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge.