UK health minister Anna Soubry is leading high-end UK health sector delegation to India from January 14-18 in an effort to explore major collaborations in the primary healthcare segment and widen partnership with India in the healthcare sector.
This is first such visit to India by a UK Health Minister in more than four years. The delegation includes a group of medical device companies from the UK that plans to visit New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai and another group of Universities from the UK that will be visiting Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, stated a British High Commission communiqué here today.
During the four-day visit, minister Soubry will meet her Indian counterpart Ghulam Nabi Azad to discuss bilateral memorandum of understandings to establish a more comprehensive partnership with India. Besides, she will also meet Drug Controller General of India G.N. Singh.
“I am delighted to be in India. It is a valuable opportunity to deepen the enduring relationship between our countries and to strengthen our co-operation in response to the growing needs of innovation in the health care sector. I am also looking forward to collaboration between the two countries in areas of private and public health care and education providers,” Soubry said.
On her visit to Trivandrum, the minister will meet chief minister Oommen Chandy and state health minister VS Sivakumar. In Bangalore she is expected to meet Devi Shetty at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital and will also visit Biocon.
The Minister will also meet Aravind Limbavali, health minister of Karnataka. In Chennai she will deliver the inaugural address at the Indo-UK Diabetes Summit on 18 January and call on VS Vijay, the Minister for Health in Tamil Nadu.
