Iraqi-Indian medical projects and removing obstacles facing Iraqis

INA – BAGHDAD 
 
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Hakim Al-Zamili called on Wednesday, for opening medical projects and removing obstacles for Iraqi patients in India.
 
Al-Zamili received in his office the Indian ambassador to Iraq Prashant Besai to discuss a number of common concern issues and ways to enhance medical cooperation between the two countries, according to a statement by the media office of the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament received by the Iraqi News Agency – INA.
 
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament also called for “expanding investment work, especially in the fields of oil and health, increasing cooperation and trade exchange between the two countries, opening joint medical projects and benefiting from Indian medical staff in specialized fields that are not available in Iraq,”
 
He stressed, "the need to strengthen cooperation and coordination between the ministries of health in the two friendly countries, to remove obstacles for Iraqi patients traveling to India, and to put in place new mechanisms and procedures related to their presence in Indian hospitals,”
 
“The importance of providing possible facilities to transport the remains of the Iraqi deceased from the Corona epidemic from India,” he included.