AN INTERVIEW WITH H.E. KLAS MOLIN, SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO INDIA DONE
BY SACHIN GAUR, DIRECTOR OPERATIONS AT INNOVATIOCURIS.
By Sachin Gaur
(for InnoHEALTH Magazine)
Q. What is the Swedish interest in
India and your priority topics for
Indian health sector?
We have a very fruitful bilateral
collaboration with India in the
health sector, beginning with
our development cooperation in
areas such as mother- and child
health, midwifery and work against
communicable
diseases.
The
cooperation has now increased to
mutually beneficial partnerships.
For the past ten years, we have had
a Memorandum of Understanding
Sweden-India collaboration
in health sector
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on Health between our countries
and next year we are going to
celebrate this with an India-Swedish
Health Year.
Many collaborations of mutual
interests are ongoing and being
planned that focus in a wide range of
areas like antimicrobial resistance,
elderly care, pharmaceuticals, non-
communicable diseases and digital
innovations including artificial
intelligence, where the emphasis will
be on knowledge transfer, capacity