KABUL: The Deputy Minister of Food and Drug Affairs, Mawlavi Hamdullah Zahid, and his accompanying delegation have participated in the Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Trade and Medical Forum during a visit to Kazakhstan.
Speaking at the forum, Zahid stressed the need to expand cooperation in regulating food products, medicines and health-related goods, facilitating trade, ensuring standards-based trade in medicines and medical equipment, promoting joint investment, and strengthening the capacity of manufacturing facilities and laboratories.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health said Zahid also met with Kazakhstan’s deputy health minister, during which the two sides agreed to hold regular meetings to discuss food and medicine regulation, trade facilitation and broader cooperation.
Zahid also invited the leadership of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Public Health to visit Afghanistan.
Afghan and Kazakh officials emphasize expansion of healthcare cooperation
