On Monday, 5 October 2015, IRIMC Senior Delegation headed by Dr. Zali, IRIMC President, met with His Excellency Mr. Giulio Haas, the Honorable ambassador of Switzerland in Iran.
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According
to IRIMC global strategies set by renowned officials of the International Affairs
Department and for enhancing the proficiency and competency of IRIMC as the
voice of Iranian healthcare professionals nationwide as well as worldwide and
to raise it to eminence as a notable Medical Council, another high level
visit with an EU embassy in Tehran took place.
Ambassador
Haas warmly welcomed Dr. Zali and IRIMC Senior Delegation and expressed his
willingness to put forward cooperation between IRIMC as the representative of
Iranian healthcare professionals and its proper counterpart in Switzerland.
IRIMC
President highly appreciated the warm welcome of Swiss Ambassador and introduced
Iranian Medical Council as the nation’s largest independent and non
governmental organization in the field of medicine
which registers all health care professionals (except nurses) to practice in
Iran, and regulates bi or multilateral collaborations between health care
professionals & other associations.
“As
IRIMC represents almost all Iranian health care professionals and due its
independent nature, it is the main body which can effectively promote and
facilitate academic, educational, and research cooperation between Iranian
& Swiss medical, dental, and pharmaceutical professionals." IRIMC President
remarked.
IRIMC Speaker, mentioned about successful cooperation that exists
between IRIMC and German, French as well as Austrian embassies in Iran which
highly promoted bilateral relations between Iranian healthcare professionals
and their counterparts in the related countries.
Ambassador Haas who
was very pleased to meet with IRIMC president & official bodies expressed
his willingness to further establishing active cooperation between health care
professionals of two countries. He also agreed to scrutinize the
situation due to plan and conduct a pilot project in near future for
facilitating the formalities of issuing visa for IRIMC registered members
aiming to participate in short courses or congresses held in Switzerland by
designating some responsibilities to Iranian Medical council.
Dr.
Zali highly appreciated the hospitality of His Excellency Mr. Haas and the
opportunity to have such warm and productive discussion. IRIMC president was
joined in the meeting by Councilor of International
Affairs, IRIMC Director of International Affairs and Director of Public Relations.
Dr.
Shima Naghavi, Director of International Affairs