Saarc health ministers discuss pandemic challenge

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A meeting of health ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries has discussed the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic and ways to promote deeper cooperation among member states to combat the deadly disease.

The meeting, held thro­ugh video link, was cha­ir­ed by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza.

It was part of Pakistan’s eff­orts to foster greater cooperation at the regional level to fight the major public health crisis and to mitigate its socioeconomic impacts on peoples of countries of the region.

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