ECO Member States Holding Tourism Meeting in Mazandaran
TEHRAN (IRNA) – Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) heads of chambers of commerce, foreign and health ministers here Saturday welcomed Iran’s proposal to hold ECO Health Tourism Conference in Iran’s green northern Mazandaran province.
Deputy Head of Iran ECO Office Ahmad Asghari-Ghajar said in Sari, northern Iran that the decision was made by 70 political, economic and health officials from the foreign and ministries and head of the chambers of commerce of the ECO member states.
He said that holding the ECO Health Tourism Conference in Mazandaran will provide a good opportunity for the northern Iranian province to introduce both its medical and its natural attractions to the other ECO member countries.
?The ECO member states are in need of Iran’s medical technology, participation, and cooperation in curing their patients, ? he added.
Asghari-Ghajar said that in the field of health tourism capacities, Mazandaran province has invested greatly in construction of modern hospital and has a large number of highly qualified physicians that will be introduced to the ECO countries as the potentials of this beautiful Iranian province in health tourism.
The 10 members of ECO today include Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The Head of ECO Tourism Commission, Mohammad Kaveh, too, who is in charge of the ECO Health Tourism Exhibition said that that specialized exhibition that was initially scheduled to be held in Amol City will be held in Ramsar instead, with 73 booths.
He said that the exhibition will be comprised of 10 booths allocated to food stuff, five to medical herbs, ten to medical equipment, three to health and healthcare services, and the rest to introduction of the special tourism attractions of Mazandaran province.
Kaveh said that the medical science universities of Mazandaran and Babol play decisive and eye-catching roles in the Health Tourism Conference.
?The opening ceremony of Babo Ultra Specialist Hospital is in the schedule of the Health Tourism Conference, ? he added.
Medical tourism or health tourism is the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country.
He said that holding the ECO Health Tourism Conference in Mazandaran will provide a good opportunity for the northern Iranian province to introduce both its medical and its natural attractions to the other ECO member countries.
?The ECO member states are in need of Iran’s medical technology, participation, and cooperation in curing their patients, ? he added.
Asghari-Ghajar said that in the field of health tourism capacities, Mazandaran province has invested greatly in construction of modern hospital and has a large number of highly qualified physicians that will be introduced to the ECO countries as the potentials of this beautiful Iranian province in health tourism.
The 10 members of ECO today include Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The Head of ECO Tourism Commission, Mohammad Kaveh, too, who is in charge of the ECO Health Tourism Exhibition said that that specialized exhibition that was initially scheduled to be held in Amol City will be held in Ramsar instead, with 73 booths.
He said that the exhibition will be comprised of 10 booths allocated to food stuff, five to medical herbs, ten to medical equipment, three to health and healthcare services, and the rest to introduction of the special tourism attractions of Mazandaran province.
Kaveh said that the medical science universities of Mazandaran and Babol play decisive and eye-catching roles in the Health Tourism Conference.
?The opening ceremony of Babo Ultra Specialist Hospital is in the schedule of the Health Tourism Conference, ? he added.
Medical tourism or health tourism is the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country.