An agreement on medical cooperation has been signed between three Chinese and Pakistani associations at a conference on medical device innovation and application held on Thursday in Shanghai.

The agreement was inked between the Shanghai High-end Medical Equipment Innovation Centre, the China-Pakistan Medical Association (CPMA) and the Journal of Economic Affairs Pakistan.

At the ceremony, CPMA President Muhammad Shahbaz said that it is “a great pleasure” to enter into the triparty deal for cooperation on the medical equipment industry as part of the China-Pakistan Medical Corridor, adding that the parties will “actively build an integrated innovation system of ‘government, industry, university, research, medicine, and application’.”

The CPMA president said that the agreement is intended to promote cooperation on medical equipment products and innovative medical products between China and Pakistan.

Efforts will also be made to cooperate in the training of medical personnel, mainly in applying high-end medical equipment.

The agreement is one of the eight deals signed at the conference. THE ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE CHINA ECONOMIC NET

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2022.

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