600 Pakistani health professionals to assist Kuwait in fight against COVID-19: SAPM.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development (OP and HRD) Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari Thursday said that Pakistan would assist Kuwait in its fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) by sending 600 health professionals.

'It has been decided in principle that 600 health workers including doctors and nurses will be sent to Kuwait at the request of Kuwaiti authorities,' the SAPM told to the teleconference, arranged by the OP and HRD Ministry for registering complaints of the Pakistani Diaspora in Kuwait.

The move would foster relations of both the countries, Zulfikar Bukhari said in a news release issued by the OP and HRD Ministry.

He informed the participants of virtual town hall meeting that four special flights would be operated to airlift...