新疆维吾尔自治区和田地区和田县的孩子们上完诺华“健康快车”项目举办的心理健康课后在镜头前展露微笑。（图片来源：诺华）
总部位于瑞士的国际医药健康公司诺华表示，截止2016年底，诺华“健康快车”项目组织了数千场健康知识科普讲座，覆盖新疆维吾尔自治区近90%的边远地区，累计受益人数超过200万人次。
诺华集团（中国）副总裁张炜表示：“该项目取得的成就让我们倍受鼓舞，坚定了我们对履行企业责任和负责任运营的信念，激励我们帮助更多人改善健康和提高生活质量。”
据估算，迄今为止诺华用于该公益项目的总支出约达5,000万元人民币（合723万美元）。作为全世界最大的医药健康企业之一，诺华致力于提高新疆地区当地人口的健康意识，改善当地的健康条件。
诺华“健康快车”项目于2010年启动，致力于帮助新疆地区特别是边远地区改变落后的卫生条件，助力医疗卫生水平的提升。该项目是在中国政府出台“卫生援疆”的方针政策后启动的，旨在顺应这一重要的国策。
诺华“健康快车”库尔勒慢病防控项目第三期启动仪式于4月在库尔勒市举行。
张炜表示，诺华“健康快车”项目已在新疆自治区各地的城市和乡村组织了多次健康推广活动，包括举办针对新疆地区中小学生和居民的健康知识教育讲座，举办针对当地基层医护人员的专业培训，建立医学标本冷链运输系统，捐赠医疗设备以及编纂医疗健康书籍等。
今年二月，总部设在瑞士巴塞尔的诺华公司凭借其“健康快车”项目荣膺“新疆维吾尔自治区科学技术普及奖”，成为首个也是唯一一个获得该荣誉的外资企业。
库尔勒市人民政府副市长王春红在启动仪式上表示：“诺华‘健康快车’项目是专门为新疆量身打造的公益项目，特别关注关心边疆少数民族地区群众的健康和医疗卫生事业的发展。”
过去两年来，库尔勒“慢病防控”项目的主要工作是促进优势医疗资源的下沉、提升基层医护人员的专业技术水平以及广泛深入地宣传健康知识，尤其是宣传传染病防治知识。
原新疆维吾尔自治区卫生厅厅长买买提·牙森表示，这一项目为新疆的卫生健康建设和慢病管理做出了重要贡献。
自诺华“健康快车”慢病防控项目在库尔勒市启动以来，共开展了36场面向医务人员的讲座，组织了671场针对学生、教师和居民的健康知识科普讲座，累计受益人数超过6万人次。
当地卫计委的一位官员表示，由于诺华的“健康快车”项目，库尔勒市在慢病防控方面目前处于自治区前列。
张炜指出，除库尔勒以外，“健康快车”项目也已在其他许多县市开展。
2011年到2013年期间，诺华对新疆基层医院的800多名医护人员进行了培训，增强他们对乙肝等传染病的诊疗水平。
自2010年5月该项目在阿克苏启动以来，诺华采用书画比赛和文艺表演等新颖的形式在全疆的校园开展了各类健康教育行动。
张炜认为，学生会将所学到的知识告诉家人，对当地社区的健康习惯产生良好的影响，所以对学生进行健康知识科普教育可以产生积极的连锁效应。
新疆医科大学第一附属医院副院长汤宝鹏（中）在新疆巴楚县义诊期间为一名患者做检查。（图片来源：诺华）
以下英文原文转载自2017年5月4日《中国日报》，作者孟凡彬
Swiss pharma group Novartis AG organizes health lectures in Xinjiang
By MENG FANBIN
mengfanbin@chinadaily.com.cn
Children smile in front of the camera after a mental health class sponsored by Novartis health express program in Hetian county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY.
Swiss-based international pharma group Novartis AG said that thousands of lectures on health were organized by its health express program until the end of 2016, with the lecture circuit covering almost 90 percent of the remote areas in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and benefiting more than 2 million participants.
"The achievements of the project inspire our adherence to corporate responsibility and responsible operations, helping more people improve their health and quality of life," said Larry Zhang, vice-president of Novartis Group (China).
Novartis estimates costs for the public welfare program to date have totaled about 50 million yuan ($7.23 million). Novartis, one of the largest drugmakers in the world, aims to raise local people's health awareness and improve local health conditions in Xinjiang.
Novartis launched the health express program in 2010 to help improve poor sanitary conditions and low medical standards in the region, especially in the remote rural areas. The program was launched in the wake of the Chinese government's new policy of aiding healthcare in Xinjiang.
The kick-off ceremony of the third Novartis China health express program on chronic disease prevention and control, was held in April in Kuerle, a city in Xinjiang.
Zhang said the China health express program has organized many health promotion activities in different cities and rural areas in the autonomous region. This covered holding health education lectures for students and residents, organizing training for doctors and staff, establishing cold chain transportation system for medical specimens, donating medical equipment and compiling health books.
Novartis, based in Basel in Switzerland, won the Xinjiang Science & Technology Promotion Award in February because of its health express program. It is the first and only foreign company which has won such an accolade.
"The program was tailor-made for Xinjiang, concerning itself with the population's health in a frontier minority region and with the development of medical and health services," said Wang Chunhong, deputy mayor of Kuerle, at the ceremony.
Over the last two years Kuerle's chronic disease prevention and control project has worked on improving medical resources in the rural areas, improving standards for medical staff and publicizing health knowledge－especially the knowledge of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
The project has made a great contribution to health construction and chronic disease management in Xinjiang said Muhammad Yasin, former director general of the Xinjiang health department.
Around 36 lectures to medical staff and 671 lectures to students, teachers and residents have been held since the Novartis health express project was launched in Kuerle, benefiting more than 60,000 attendees.
Thanks to the Novartis project, Kuerle is now at the forefront of the autonomous region's push on chronic disease prevention and control, said an official from the local Health, Population and Family Planning Commission.
In addition to Kuerle, the health express program has also been carried on in many other cities and counties, Zhang said.
Between 2011 and 2013 more than 800 medical and nursing staff in primary hospitals in Xinjiang were trained, so as to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases like hepatitis B.
Since the program launched in Aksu in May 2010, health education campaigns were carried out in schools and universities all over the autonomous region, utilizing such innovative methods as painting competitions and entertainment performances.
The education of students has had a positive ripple effect as students pass on the knowledge they acquire to their families and thus influence health behavior in local communities, said Zhang.
Tang Baopeng (middle), deputy director of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang University, is examining a patient during a free diagnosis in Bachu county, Xinjiang.PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY.
