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EEC supports regional and country cooperation on public health issues
Altynai Omurbekova, Director of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Department for Labor Migration and Social Protection shared her experience in health protection for migrant workers in the Eurasian Economic Union at the Central Asia International Health Investment Forum held in Bishkek.
The Forum was attended by representatives of Central Asian countries, including the EAEU Member States, United Nations agencies, and European Union institutions, development agencies, regional and international structures, development banks, and other organizations.
The event participants discussed such issues as increasing investments in healthcare, promoting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals related to communicable- and noncommunicable- disease control, and protecting the health of migrant workers.
“Increased labor migration flows in the EAEU necessitates closer interaction between the relevant authorities of the Union countries in order to strengthen and protect public health and solve the issues of providing medical care to workers and members of their families,” Altynai Omurbekova noted.
The Director of the EEC Department informed the Forum participants about the Commission's activities to implement Strategy-2025 measures in the healthcare sector.
On the Forum sidelines, Altynai Omurbekova held a working meeting with representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) – Gundo Weiler, Acting Regional Emergency Director, and Kristina Mauer-Stender, Head of the Country Support Group. The parties agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation, in particular by establishing a dialogue between the Commission and various divisions and regional offices of WHO.
An agreement was reached to hold a joint event in October 2024 in one of the EAEU countries to protect the health of migrant workers and members of their families in the state of employment.
The Central Asia International Health Investment Forum was organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe jointly with the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic under the auspices of Sadyr Japarov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The EEC and the WHO develop their interaction under the Memorandum of Understanding signed on October 13, 2021 in Minsk.
