India, Lanka discuss bilateral cooperation in health sector

India and Sri Lanka today decided to expand bilateral cooperation in health sector and resolve outstanding issues amicably through mutual consultations.
This was decided during a meeting between the Union Health Minister J P Nadda and Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine, Government of Sri Lanka.
Nadda shared with his Sri Lankan counterpart that India has taken a series of steps to prevent and contain the threat from Ebola virus and underlined the need for cooperation between the two countries to guard against infectious disease threats.
He also underscored the need for expanding bilateral cooperation in the area of health, including traditional medicines, through formal MoUs on health cooperation and hoped that these could be finalised and signed at the earliest.

Nadda noted that the relations between India and Sri Lanka is unique and based upon shared historical, cultural, ethnic and civilizational ties and extensive people-to-people interaction as he extended an invitation to Senaratne to attend the next SAARC Health Ministers' Meeting at New Delhi.