MONGOLIAN DELEGATES VISIT ITALY

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A delegation of Mongolia's health sector, headed by the State Secretary of Health Ministry Kh.Khurelbaatar, visited Italia on November 10-17. The group comprised health department chairmen from all aimags. They have studied a health system, primary health service and health insurance. On November 11 the group met a director of "Friulchem" medicines and pharmaceuticals company and exchanged views on possibilities of establishing a joint medicines manufacturing company. The Italian specialists said they had sought ways of producing medicines from a urine of pregnant mare and offered a collaboration in this direction. Then the delegation visited Lombardy region to meet its officials in charge of health issues. The State Secretary of the Ministry briefed on Mongolia's state policy in the health sphere, shaped the health cooperation ways between this region and the Mongolian Ovorkhangai aimag and proposed to make memorandum of understanding on a cooperation between the health organizations of the two countries. Other legs of the visit were "Esaote" company, a producer of medical diagnostic systems, and Bergamo city's hospital.

B.Oyundelger