ISLAMABAD, May 9: The government needs partnership to promote health care system in Pakistan, said the federal minister for health, Nasir Khan, while talking to the international executive director of Plan International, John Greensmith, here on Friday.

He stressed the need for a close cooperation and understanding between Plan International and Ministry of Health to promote better health care services.

“There are number of areas where we can work together and provincial and district governments will be utilized to give full cooperation to the Plan international,” the minister said.

Mr Greensmith told the minister that the Plan was a community development organization, focussing on children without religious, political or governmental affiliation.

“As a policy, the Plan Pakistan did not offer direct support to an individual child but used funds for the uplift of everyone living in the community.”

Community participation is the means by which this objective is aimed to achieve, he added.