CAIRO, April 19 (MENA) – Chairman of the Egypt Healthcare Authority Ahmed al-Sobky conferred with Swedish Ambassador to Egypt Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt on horizons of cooperation and boosting partnership in the fields of healthcare between both sides.
The meeting tackled mechanisms to implement twinship program with Karolinska Institute of Sweden, one of the most prominent international medical and academic institutions with an aim to exchange medical expertise under the umbrella of HUB program for international twinship that was launched by the authority to contribute to transferring and localizing international health examples in Egypt and benefiting from the advanced Swedish expertise in this field.
During the meeting, Sobky lauded the efforts of former Swedish ambassador Håkan Emsgård to support health cooperation track between Egypt and Sweden.
Sobky asserted the importance of fruitful partnership with the Swedish side in the fields of green transformation of hospitals, digital solutions, developing training programs in addition to cooperation with AstraZeneca company in supporting cancer patients and improving their treatment results.
The authority aims at transferring advanced Swedish health system to Egypt via strategic partnership, Sobky said.
He added that the Egyptian market has promising opportunities for investment in the sector of healthcare to support promoting Egyptian-Swedish relations within the framework of partnership between Egypt and the EU to achieve sustainable developmental and investment goals.
Meanwhile, Juhlin-Dannfelt lauded Egypt’s healthcare efforts, especially its humanitarian role in treating and supporting the Sudanese brethren. (MENA)
