The Taiwan government will finance the construction of a nationwide Transplant Medical Center.
The inauguration of this new facility, dubbed "Ma Ying-jeou” will match with the centennial celebrations of Taiwan´s political life, which falls this year.
Guatemalan Vice President Rafael Espada said "... about 40 doctors will be sent to the island for training at the Transplant Center in Kaohsiung Chang Kung," the article in Prensalibre.com reported..
Depending on the technical analysis of the project, the government of Taiwan will lend funds for the construction of cold storage facilities for warehousing products.
The project includes the construction of two cold storage warehouses, one with 2,700 square meters for the storage of dairy products, and the other with 2,500 square meters for the storage of seeds.
A mission of entrepreneurs is accompanying the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, on his tour of Central American countries.
Entrepreneurs from the Asian nation will make two trips to the region. The first one will be in June and they will visit El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize. In July, they will travel to Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua.
An article in Laprensa.com.ni reported: "The deputy minister of Foreign Affairs for China-Taiwan, Javier Ching-shan Hou, explained that Ma would be accompanied by a large delegation of Taiwanese representatives from nongovernmental organizations and entrepreneurs on both trips."
Taiwan has committed to cooperation programs in infrastructure and security in Guatemala during the visit of Alvaro Colom to the island.
In his report, Colom said that the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, confirmed to him that the works on the segund phase of the widening and rehablitaiton of the 80 kilometer highway from the Guatemalan capital to El Rancho, which is being financed by the Taiwanese Government, will begin.