Russia Ready for Healthcare Cooperation With Africa – Putin

Russia Ready for Healthcare Cooperation With Africa – Putin

The Russian president Putin’s remarks came from his message of greeting to the guests and participants of the First Joint Russian-African International Conference on Combating Infectious Diseases, which was read by the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, as reported by the Russian newspaper Sputnik.

The risk of new epidemics in the world is high and Africa is especially vulnerable to these challenges, Russia, for its part, is ready for the most active cooperation in the healthcare field, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

The president noted that the program of assistance to African countries in the field of sanitary and epidemic welfare, launched in 2023, provides for the delivery of ten mobile laboratories of high biological protection, training of more than 350 African specialists, as well as a series of joint scientific researches.

The conference participants – representatives of specialized government agencies and services, doctors, epidemiologists, microbiologists from two dozen countries – will be able to exchange professional developments, experience in preventing and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases, Putin emphasized.