On September 16, the official visit of the Minister of Healthcare of Armenia, Mr. Armen Muradyan to Sweden at the invitation of the Swedish Minister of Healthcare, Public Health and Sports Mr. Gabriel Wikström started. During the visit there will be a bilateral meeting between two ministers, visits to the public, educational and research institutions of the Swedish healthcare sector, as well as a round-table meeting and discussion with relevant Swedish companies.

On September 16, the delegation headed by Minister Muradyan visited the Academic Hospital of Uppsala University, which is one of Sweden's oldest university clinics, founded in 1708. During the meeting with Director Marianne van Rooijen the main areas of activity and applied methodology at the hospital were introduced to the Minister with exchange of thoughts on the ways of organizing hospital-university research partnership models. The meeting was followed by a tour to the Urology Department which is performing robotic surgery.

The delegation headed by Minister Muradyan was then hosted at the County Council of Uppsala with a meeting with the Chairman Börje Wennberg. During the meeting, the models of financing the healthcare sector in Sweden, as well as the interaction of the central government and local administrations within the healthcare system were introduced to Minister Muradyan.

Mr. Muradyan also visited the Skandion clinic, the first and newly opened clinic of cancer treatment by proton therapy in Scandinavia, as well as the Uppsala bio, a cluster organization in life sciences which s tasked with promoting triple helix cooperation of public, private and academic institutions in innovative production.

In the evening, the delegation was hosted at the residence of the Governor of Uppsala, the Uppsala Castle, where a meeting and reception was organized with participation of Armenian doctors and medical sepcialists of Sweden. At the end of the reception the Governor of Uppsala Mr. Peter Egardt gave a dinner in honor of Minister Muradyan.