Health Ministry leadership meets with visiting Saudi Health minister

The prospects of strengthening bilateral relations betwixt Greece and Saudi Arabia successful the wellness sector, with an accent connected the transportation of method know-how, processing associated actions, and collaborating connected probe and innovation were discussed among others astatine the gathering of the Greek Health Ministry enactment connected Thursday with visiting Saudi Health Minister Fahad Aljalajel.

As Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis stated, "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is simply a strategical spouse of Greece connected precise galore levels - economy, energy, tourism, and present health. I genuinely judge that Saudi Arabia is present a state that has a batch to thatch us. Today we initiated a adjacent cooperation, and I americium genuinely precise blessed for this gathering today, and privation erstwhile much to invited him to my country."

On his side, Health Minister Fahad Aljalajel noted that the gathering was productive, and that helium looked guardant to strengthening this adjacent narration betwixt the 2 countries. He said helium was blessed to spot the involvement and enthusiasm for the opportunities disposable successful the translation of Saudi Arabia's wellness sector, adding successful peculiar that determination are a batch of opportunities for practice successful the sectors of integer wellness and of pharmaceuticals.

Alternate Health Minister Eirini Agapidaki said she was impressed by the strategical investments successful prevention of unwellness and the promotion of wellness that transformed the Saudi Ministry of Health alteration from "a ministry of illness" to a "ministry of health". Three quarters of their policies absorption connected prevention and wellness alternatively of connected hospitalization, she noted, proving that preventative attraction is much effectual and much humane.

Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistocleous spoke of "new paths opening successful facing modern wellness challenges" done method know-how exchanges, associated actions, and promoting probe and innovation, benefitting the 2 countries' peoples and wellness systems.

Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Vartzopoulos said that helium spoke extensively astatine the gathering astir interventions successful intelligence wellness successful Greece, and successful organizational changes done a caller instrumentality completing intelligence wellness reforms. He spoke of the National Mental Health Services Network and the monitoring of epidemiological absorption done a integer system, arsenic good arsenic of the caller Organization of Prevention and Management of Addictions.

After the meeting, the Saudi delegation paid a sojourn to the coordination halfway of the exigency ambulance work EKAV, wherever its members were fixed a circuit of facilities by ministers, and were briefed connected its operation. Their past halt was the Greek pharmaceutical manufacture ELPEN.