Islamabad, Dec 28, IRNA — Iran’s Deputy Health Minister for MedicalEducation highlighting the availability of immense health facilities inIran says efforts are underway to organize health tourism between Iran andPakistan.
In an interview with IRNA on Saturday, Dr. Bagher Larijani said thatfortunately, Iran is progressing well in the medical sector with thousandsof well-equipped and advance hospitals around the country.
He said eighty percent of the hospitals in the country are affiliated withmedical science universities where experts and researches are performingtheir duties with full dedication.
The deputy minister added Iran is fully capable to share and enhance itshealth facilities with regional states as many people from the neighboringcountries visit Iran for health tourism. “We would like to facilitate moreand more patients from neighboring countries,” he stated.
Dr. Bagher Larijani expressing his views said Iran and Pakistan have somekind of cooperation on eye diseases and surgical areas but “we want this tobe organized so that no negative element can take advantage of thisactivity and damage the dignity of both states”.
He said Iran’s health ministry is working on different proposals in thisregard.
The minister said Pakistani officials during the meetings have expressedtheir eagerness about the proposed visit of Iran’s Minister of Health,Treatment and Medical Education Saeed Namaki to Pakistan.
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Dr. Bagher Larijani said that Pakistan is interested to enhance cooperationwith Iran in the health sector and soon we will prepare a charter on thematter.
He termed his meetings with Pakistani officials as useful, saying bothcountries can share experience in the health sector especially in medicinemanufacturing.
Iran’s Deputy Minister of Medical Education Dr. Bagher Larijani, leading adelegation, arrived in Islamabad on Thursday.
During the visit, he met with Pakistan Prime Minister’s Special Assistanton National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Dr. Zafar Mirzaand Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Welfare and PovertyAlleviation Sania Nishtar to enhance cooperation between the two countriesin the health sector.
