Health Minister and Ambassador of Palestine discuss supply of medicines

15:13, 21 мая 2024, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Maria ORLOVA

Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan Alymkadyr Beishenaliev met with the Special and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Palestine to Kyrgyzstan Javad Awad. The press center of the Ministry of Health reported.

The parties discussed issues of partnership and implementation of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed last year. The Palestinian side voiced information on the situation in the healthcare system in their country, prospects for interaction in the fields of healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

«I would like to express the hope that our meeting today will serve as a good start for the further development of mutually beneficial and long-term cooperation. You have your own pharmaceutical industry. We are interested in partnership in this direction, since our state in this direction depends on imports. To resolve this issue, a special subordinate organization has been created — Kyrgyzframatsiya state enterprise, the purpose of which is to cover the needs of the population of the republic and the healthcare system for medicines and medical products at prices from direct manufacturers,» Alymkadyr Beishenaliev said.

Following the meeting, the parties agreed to work out a visit to Palestine to establish strong ties and get to know the healthcare system in detail.

The ministry recalled that a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation in the healthcare sector was signed last year between the Ministries of Health of the two countries, which provides for partnership in such areas as epidemiology, public health, food safety, surgery, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, anesthesiology, plastic /burn surgery, nursing and paramedics, health care management; prevention and control of infectious and non-infectious diseases, pharmaceutical industry and marketing of medicines.