Cabinet has endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Health of Fiji and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Korea on Bilateral Cooperation in Health Care and Medical Science.
Cabinet based its decision on a submission by the Minister for Health, Dr Neil Sharma.
The Minister said that the MOU seeks encourage and promote co-operation in such areas as public health policy, health resources, public health management, health delivery system including primary health care, disease control and prevention, drug and health care research, traditional medicine, and other areas of mutual interest that may be jointly decided upon by the sides.
He said that the parties will co-operate through exchanges of information, exchanges of delegations and experts, exchanges of experience on priority issues for both countries, participation in congresses, conferences and other events, joint projects and personnel training in the fields of health care and medical pharmaceutical science, and any other form of cooperation that may be jointly decided upon by the sides.
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