Baghdad The Minister of Health, Salih Mahdi Al-Hasnawi, met with the Minister of Health of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bahram Ainullah, who was accompanied by the Iranian Ambassador, Muhammad Kazem Al Sadiq.
“During the meeting, they discussed enhancing ways of joint cooperation in the field of providing medicines and medical supplies, exchanging visits between medical teams, holding joint medical conferences, treating patients, and training medical and health personnel,” the ministry said in a statement .
After the meeting, a joint press conference was held between the two ministers, and the two sides emphasized the depth of the historical relationship between the two neighboring countries and the two peoples. In the conference, it was announced that a specialized bilateral committee will be formed to discuss areas of bilateral health cooperation – treatment of patients and recruitment of medical teams to perform complex operations – cooperation of medical universities in the two countries in the field of medical and health education and teaching – coordination between the health parliamentary committees in the two countries to issue laws that support the health reality – bilateral educational cooperation for medical colleges and the Iraqi board – opening branches of medical sciences for Iranian universities in the holy city of Karbala.
Al-Hasnawi praised “the health cooperation between the two countries, stressing the keenness of Iraq and the Ministry of Health to continue cooperation for the benefit of the two peoples.”
The meeting, which was held at the ministry’s headquarters, was attended by a number of members of the Iranian Shura Council, in the presence of MP Siham al-Musawi, head of the Health and Environment Committee in the Iraqi parliament, and a number of officials in the ministry.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
