-Medical Professional Support-

The Hospital has long cultivated clinical care, accumulating practical experience in interdisciplinary integration, acute and critical medical care, and institutional framework construction. Building upon this foundation, the Hospital promotes inter-hospital cooperation, regional support, and international exchange, transforming mature medical capabilities into collaborative models that can be replicated and shared. This not only responds to domestic healthcare needs but also gradually expands the Hospital's substantive influence within the international health system.

• The Core of Medical Resources in Southern Taiwan

As the critical core of medical resources in southern Taiwan, NCKU Hospital has long shoulder the key roles of regional medical integration, acute and critical medical support, and inter-hospital collaboration. It not only continuously responds to local diverse and complex health needs, but also undertakes national-level medical missions. Relying on its complete medical capacity, interprofessional teams, and cross-system cooperation mechanisms, the Hospital continuously supports the medical service network across the Yunlin-ChiayiTainan and Kaohsiung-Pingtung regions, fully exerting its functions in resource integration, acute and critical care, and resilience support to become an important core force that sustains the stable operation of the overall medical system in southern Taiwan and drives national medical development.

Maternal and Child Care

In an era of declining birth rates, the arrival of every new life and the growth of every child carry the expectations and pressures of a family. Therefore, starting from maternal and infant care, child and adolescent health, to family support, NCKU Hospital leverages interprofessional team cooperation and practical actions to accompany families through various needs in the processes of childbearing, growth, illness, and caregiving. The scope of services encompasses aspects such as family planning, breastfeeding health education, child and adolescent mental health, acute and critical illness treatment, chronic disease management, child and adolescent protection, healing ward environments, and companionship for families facing cancer. The Hospital not only provides professional medical care but also attaches great importance to the anxiety, stress, and support needs of children and their family members throughout the treatment journey, ensuring that care is not just about treating diseases, but also a reassuring force that empowers families to move forward with peace of mind.

Maternal and Child Care at NCKU Hospital

Southern Region Human Milk Bank

The Southern Region Human Milk Bank was established through cooperation between the Health Promotion Administration and NCKU Hospital. The mission of its establishment is not to encourage mothers to over-lactate for the purpose of milk donation, but rather, under the prerequisite of prioritizing the fulfillment of their own infants' feeding needs, to invite mothers with surplus milk to become stable and sustainable milk donation partners. The Southern Region Human Milk Bank hopes that in addition to successfully breastfeeding their own children, if mothers can still provide an extra 30cc or more of breast milk each time, they can become cooperative milk donors, sharing this precious resource with premature infants and sick babies in need. To continuously improve the quality of breastfeeding support services, in 2025, the Hospital planned and conducted 5 breast milk education and training sessions, and established relevant training regulations: new employees who have served for less than one year must complete 8 hours of course training, while those who have been employed for one year or more must complete 4 hours of inservice education annually.

Integrated Geriatric Care

Taiwan has the fastest growing elderly population in the world and is expected to enter a super-aged society by 2025. The medical system is thus facing unprecedented challenges. NCKU Hospital is one of the few hospitals in southern Taiwan that offers specialized training in geriatric medicine. In 2019, the Department of Geriatric Medicine was established, followed by the Preparatory Office for the NCKU Geriatric Hospital in 2020. Through the consolidation of internal units in 2022, an interdisciplinary care team was formed, promoting a “smart integrated geriatric care model centered on intrinsic capacity,” aiming to build a larger healthcare ecosystem to alleviate the burden on healthcare units and caregivers.

Smart Integrated Geriatric Care Model

Starting from the health of older adults' activities of daily living (ADL), we establish services including health assessment, musculoskeletal care, psychological support, auditory rehabilitation, to dementia and cardiovascular disease treatment. By doing so, we construct a more comprehensive integrated geriatric care system to assist older adults in delaying disability and enhancing their quality of life.

The Cares Expo Taipei

From August 8 to August 10, NCKU Hospital participated in “Healthy Ageing Tech Show" at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1. With the core theme of "Smart Care × Technological Empowerment × Joyful Ageing Together," the Hospital showcased its innovative achievements in geriatric care through six major highlights, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, smart fitness, gamified rehabilitation, and integrated health management, thereby practicing its vision of cross-domain collaboration and health sustainability.

Through this exhibition, the Hospital not only showcased its innovative achievements in cross-domain collaboration and the integration of smart technology into geriatric healthcare, but also continues to join hands with all sectors to promote the sustainable development of smart health, dedicated to creating a more resilient and warmer age-friendly care environment.

• Medical Collaboration

Medical collaboration has become a crucial dimension for medical centers to expand their professional influence and fulfill global health responsibilities. By deepening cooperative relationships with various healthcare institutions, it not only promotes mutual growth in medical care and professional development, but also further elevates the visibility and substantive contribution of Taiwan's healthcare in the international community.

National Eye Bank - Southern District Office

To ensure that corneal donations from citizens are effectively preserved and properly utilized, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2012 referenced the establishment experience and operational models of foreign national-level corneal preservation banks, combined with the insights of domestic experts, to plan and prepare for the establishment of Taiwan's national-level eye bank.

Among various types of human organ transplants, corneal transplantation currently stands as a surgery with lower risks and a relatively higher success rate. Compared to other organ transplants, which mostly carry a high degree of urgency, corneal transplantation relies more heavily on a comprehensive preservation and dispatch mechanism. Therefore, establishing an eye bank not only enhances the efficiency of utilization for donated resources, but also prevents the waste of corneas caused by recipients failing to receive transplants in a timely manner. The eye bank is staffed with dedicated personnel to establish complete workflows tailored to domestic needs, covering the evaluation of potential donors, corneal harvesting, management of preservation equipment and materials, testing items, transportation standards, and post-transplantation followups. Through the eye bank's exclusive equipment and a professional management mechanism wherein ophthalmologists concurrently serve as eye bank directors, corneas donated out of great love are tested, preserved, and allocated, and are then provided to suitable waiting recipients, further implementing the effective utilization of precious donated resources and the value of life continuation.

Forensic Medicine and Legal Medicine Exchange

Since 2015, NCKU Hospital has continuously promoted professional exchange courses in forensic and legal medicine, now entering its tenth consecutive year, gradually constructing a stable and in-depth dialogue platform between the medical and judicial sectors. The 10th Legal Medicine Course once again invited the chiefs, judges, and prosecutors of the Tainan District Court and the Tainan District Prosecutors Office to jointly participate, demonstrating a sustained commitment to deepening collaboration between medicine and justice. This year's course focused on issues such as clinical decision-making risks, child and youth protection practices, and medical dispute appraisal. Through the sharing of challenges in acute stroke diagnosis and treatment, cross-agency cooperation mechanisms for child and youth protection, and the dilemmas within the medical appraisal system, it promoted case exchanges and professional understanding between physicians and judicial officers. Through this crossdisciplinary dialogue, physicians are able to better understand the logic of judicial review,

while judicial officers can examine medical conduct from a perspective closer to clinical reality, further deepening the foundation of medical-legal cooperation, elevating the quality of judicial adjudication, and optimizing the healthcare service environment.

International Medical Exchange

Since before 2010, NCKU Hospital has consecutively promoted medical and health cooperation with multiple countries. Through professional exchanges, talent cultivation, and cooperative missions, the Hospital continuously elevates the visibility and influence of Taiwan's healthcare in the international community, and to this day, maintains stable exchanges and interactions with countries such as Kenya and India. In 2025, the Hospital further signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hue Central Hospital in Vietnam, continuously deepening international cooperation and physician advanced training in the field of orthopedics. This signing also marks an important milestone in once again joining hands since the first signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties in 2019.

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Doctors Without Borders

National Cheng Kung University Hospital extends its social responsibility and international concern through the humanitarian practices of its medical staff. Dr. Kuo, Yu-shih, an emergency room physician who graduated from NCKU and previously served at NCKU and the Marshall Islands National Hospital. Based on a passion for international medical relief, Dr. Kuo, Yuh-shin joined Doctors Without Borders, and in 2024, traveled to a provincial hospital in Afghanistan to support clinical medical care for half a year. During this period, in addition to dedicating herself to frontline medical care, she also jointly organized 2 emergency rescue and fire drills with local medical personnel, assisting in elevating the emergency response capabilities of the local medical and administrative systems, which concretely demonstrates the value of the Hospital's medical expertise extending from deep local roots to global health practice.