Jordan Health Minister to Attend MECC Ministerial

UNCLAS AMMAN 003709

SIPDIS

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TAGS: TBIO OTRA JO PBIO
SUBJECT: Jordan Health Minister to Attend MECC Ministerial

Ref: State 82773


1. Post delivered reftel invitation from HHS Secretary
Leavitt, with a covering letter from the Charge, to Minister
of Health Said Darwazeh on May 9 to attend the Middle East
Cancer Consortium Ministerial in Geneva on May 17. Deputy
Secretary General for Hospital Affairs Samir Al-Kayed told

SIPDIS
ESTHOff on May 10 that Minister Darwazeh and Secretary
General Sa'ad Kharabsheh will attend the ministerial.


2. BIO ON MINISTER DARWAZEH: Fluent English speaker, active,
energetic and progressive, 48 years old, BA in Industrial
Engineering from Purdue, MBA from France, President of Hikma
Pharmaceuticals 1995-2003, Minister of Health since 2003,
two recent trips to the United States as Health Minister.

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