India’s medical diplomacy:
- India played a good role in medical diplomacy when Iraq, Afghanistan were suffering wars and treated soldiers. This has boosted image.
- In the past decade and half, national medical diplomacy has spread to Ethiopia, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Eritrea, among other countries in Africa and Asia.
- Few examples:
- At Artemis hospital in Gurgaon, has treated more than 450 Iraqi soldiers since 2014.
- The Kabul Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital worked overtime with Indian doctors, nurses and Afghan staffers.
- after seeing the work done by Indian medical professionals in Afghanistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka also sought support.