MoU in the Healthcare Sector

India is having ongoing bilateral relations in the health sector with 53 countries presently (as in Annexure). During the current calendar year, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has signed Agreements/Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)/Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with five countries, namely (i) Oman, (ii) Iran, (iii) Jordan, (iv) Timor Leste, and (v) Swaziland for cooperation in the health sector.

International cooperation encourages joint initiatives in capacity building, training, exchange of information, exchange of experts, health manpower development, and technical support in establishing laboratories/hospitals and research in mutually identified areas, on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutual benefit.  It provides opportunities for sharing and emulating best practices and learning from each other, to address public health challenges.-PIB