12月5日，市妇女儿童医院与意大利佛罗伦萨大学附属迈耶儿童医院“友好医院”签约暨揭牌仪式在A楼五楼会议室举行。迈耶儿童医院院长Alberto Zanobini教授、国际关系部主任Kathleen McGreevy女士、迈耶儿童基金会主席GianpaoloDonzelli教授、临沂市人民政府副市长赵爱华、市人社局局长邢军、市卫计委主任吕富、市外国专家局局长密守勇、市卫计委副主任林红、市妇女儿童医院院长张艳丽出席，仪式由副主任林红主持。参加签约仪式的还有市卫计委直属医疗卫生单位负责人和各县区妇幼保健院院长。

签约仪式上，吕主任作了致辞，希望利用好这次合作交流的机会，共享医学发展的先进成果，共同为儿童的健康成长创造条件。Alberto Zanobini教授与Gianpaolo Donzelli主席也分别致辞，对今后两院的合作表示期待。Alberto Zanobini教授与张艳丽院长签署《两院合作框架备忘录》，副市长赵爱华与Alberto Zanobini教授共同为“友好医院”揭牌。

两院建立正式“友好医院”合作关系后，将开展多领域、深层次的合作，这不仅有利于医院开阔国际视野，而且有利于第一时间引进欧洲乃至世界先进的诊疗技术及理念，提升医护人员诊疗水平和综合能力。与迈耶儿童医院的合作是医院实施市委、市政府“招商引智”发展战略、加强对外合作与交流的一个新举措。今后两院将携手共进，共同为广大儿童提供更优质的服务，为两个城市乃至两个国家的儿童健康事业做出积极的贡献。

Women and Children’sHospitalofLinYiestablished the “Friendship Hospitals” relationship with Meyer Children’sHospital of Florence,Italy

December 5^th, we held the signing and inaugurating ceremony between two hospitals in the fifth floor of Building A. The leaders attending the ceremony were: The General Director of Meyer Children’s Hospital Dr. Alberto Zanobini, The chief of International Relationship Department Miss Kathleen McGreevy, The President of Meyer Foundation Dr. Gianpaolo Donzelli, The Vice Mayor of LinYi City Miss Zhao Aihua, The Director of LinYi Human Resoures and Social Security Bureau Mr. Xing Jun, The Director of LinYi Health and Family Planning Commission Mr. Lv Fu, The Director of LinYi Foreign Experts Bureau Mr. Mi Shouyong, The Vice Director of LinYi Health and Family Planning Commission Miss Lin Hong, The General Director of Women and Children’s Hospital of LinYi Miss Zhang Yanli. The ceremony was hosted by Miss Lin Hong. The directors from hospitals directly under the commission, the directors from women and children’s hospital of different counties and part of our staff also attended this ceremony.

During this ceremony, Mr. Lv Fu gave us a speech, hoping we could make full use of this exchange opportunity and share the advanced outcomes of the cooperation. Dr. Alberto Zanobini and Dr. Gianpaolo Donzelli addressed speeches separately, expressing the expectations about the future cooperation. Dr. Alberto Zanobini and Miss Zhang Yanli signed the Cooperation Agreement together and Dr. Alberto Zanobini and Miss Zhao Aihua unveiled the “Friendship Hospitals” tablet together.

The two “Friendship Hospitals” will carry out multi-disciplinary and deep-seated cooperation in the future. It is useful not only to widen the international vision and also to make use of the advanced diagnosis-treatment skills fromEuropeand the whole world in the first place. The cooperation with Meyer is also the implement of “Investment and Intelligence Import” policy brought by the city party committee and municipal government. In the future, the two hospitals will make progress together, provide better service to children and make contributions to children from two cities, even from two nations.