Director of the Migration Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan Behzod Musayev and Deputy Foreign Minister Olimjon Abdullayev met in Qatar with the head of the state-owned Hamad Medical Corporation (HMS), Muhammad bin Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, Dune news agency reported.

The Uzbek Ambassador to Qatar Ashraf Khojaev also took part in the negotiations.

Hamad Medical Corporation unites 15 hospitals of various profiles, employing more than 35,000 employees, including 12,000 nurses. They annually serve over 3 million patients from Qatar and other countries in the region.

During the negotiations, the head of Hamad Medical Corporation noted that Uzbekistan, being a strategic partner of Qatar and a country with great potential for human resources, is of great interest for establishing long-term cooperation to meet the growing staffing needs of the country's healthcare system.

The Uzbek side, in turn, familiarized with the activities of the Migration Agency and the mechanisms of external labor migration in Uzbekistan, successful models of cooperation with international partners.

As a result of the negotiations, an agreement was reached on the creation of a joint working group that will ensure the solution of the entire range of issues related to the selection of promising medical personnel, their professional and language training, work visas, arrival in Doha, and decent living and working conditions in HMC hospitals.

The meeting was the result of the active involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and the republic's diplomatic missions abroad in the process of assisting the Migration Agency in the employment of citizens of our country in other countries.