The Memo was signed in Tehran on Tuesday by Syria's Minister of Higher Education Dr. Atef Nadaf and Iran's Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Medical Education for Education Affairs Baqer Larijani.
Syria’s ambassador to Iran, Dr. Adnan Mahmoud, was also present at the signing ceremony in Tehran.
The MoU includes a provision for supporting twinship agreements in accordance with the regulations in force in both countries and the exchange of university students, researchers and professors to participate in scientific and medical research activities in both countries.
It also provides for enhancing cooperation in the field of medicine, the exchange of outstanding researchers and top students and training in various medical and pharmaceutical disciplines, such as, neurosurgery, orthopedics and cardiology and women's surgery, liver transplantation, biomedical sciences, stem cell research, and laser technology.
Contribution to rebuilding Syrian educational institutions and hospitals universities and granting scholarships in the context of meeting the needs of the plan of the Ministry of Higher Education in Syria in the Masters and PhD were also included in the Memo.
The MoU also included the formation of educational and research work groups and the exchange of visits between the two sides with the aim of following up on the implementation of the program.
Earlier, Minister Nadaf discussed with Dr. Baqer Larijani, and a number of the ministry officials, the frameworks of joint cooperation in the fields of medicine, medical sciences and therapeutic technology.
Both sides stressed the importance of cooperation and the exchange of experiences and joint work to provide this important sector with cadres of high efficiency in various medical and therapeutic specialties through optimization of available resources.
They pointed to the strategic relationship binding the two brotherly countries, underlining the importance of joint work between Tehran and Damascus.
