The National Rehabilitation Center announced on the 14th that it has been reassigned as a rehabilitation collaboration center by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO collaboration center is an institution that supports research, education, technical assistance, and information sharing in various health fields, including rehabilitation. There are over 800 centers designated in 80 countries worldwide, with 10 institutions operating as rehabilitation collaboration centers in 8 countries.
The National Rehabilitation Center was designated as the first WHO rehabilitation collaboration center in the country in 2017. With this reassignment, it will continue to operate the collaboration center from Jan. 12, 2023, to Jan. 12, 2029.
The National Rehabilitation Center has provided training programs to strengthen the capabilities of rehabilitation personnel in middle and low-income countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, and Fiji as a collaboration center. It has also been actively engaged in organizing international forums on disability and rehabilitation and conducting research to build disability data.
Kang Yoon-koo, the head of the National Rehabilitation Center, noted, "I will continuously strive to ensure that Korea plays an important role not only in the advancement of domestic rehabilitation medicine and services but also in the international rehabilitation field."