NEW YORK: Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari met with Minister of Health of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria HE Abdelhak Saihi, Minister of Health of the Republic of Latvia HE Hosams Abu Meri and Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund Priya Basu, separately, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in New York.
The meetings addressed relations between Qatar and Algeria, and Latvia in the fields of health.
The cooperation between Qatar and the Pandemic Fund was also discussed. Established in 2022, the Pandemic Fund is a multilateral financing mechanism dedicated to providing multi-year grants to help countries with low or middle income improve their preparedness to confront future pandemics.