The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has appreciated the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and other global agencies for their colossal support in improving the health sector in Azad Kashmir. He made these remarks during his meeting with Dr. Palitha Mahipala Country Head, UN-WHO and representatives of UNICEF, Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization-GAVI Mission held at the PM House in Muzaffarabad on Thursday.
Welcoming the participants of the meeting, he said that the government was looking forward to building a stronger partnership with international organizations in the coming future. “I am pleased to say that this (AJK) is the most developed region of the country”, the PM said, adding the region’s literacy rate was 77 percent and health indicators were also better as compared to the national level.
He said that the government of AJK has made good progress on 17 sustainable development goals-SDGs. “We are grateful to our global and federal partners in health sector with high regards to Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), WHO, UNICEF and Federal Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) through regular programmatic interventions and during emergencies in the health sector”, he said.
