ISLAMABAD: The executive vice president of technology giant Siemens on Saturday expressed the company`s readiness to enhance its support for strengthening Pakistan`s healthcare infrastructure during a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari in Berlin.

The president was on a three-day visit to Germany as the two countries prepare to mark the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations.

According to a statement issued by the Presidency, Siemens Executive Vice Pre-sident Daniel Frisch briefed the president on his company`s achievements in Pakistan. He also acknowledged improvements in health services, attributing them to the Sindh health department`s `rationally networked steps`.

Mr Frisch `expressed his readiness and desire to enh-ance existing support through innovative solutions and technological applications for strengthening existing healthcare infrastructure of Pakistan`, the statement said.

The Siemens delegation informed the president that its representatives would soon visit Pakistan to sign MoUs with local partners incapacity building and healthcare technology.

The company`s technological cooperation in Pakistan extends to cancer, stroke and other diseases, the delegation said.

`Quality healthcare` President Zardari called for the adoption ofresearchbased and technology-driven solutions to improve healthcare services in the country.

He said Pakistan highly valued German industrial, technological and infrastructural support from organisations such as Siemens` healthcare division, which has been operating in Pakistan for decades and employs more than 100 people in three major cities.

The president said the `long-awaited mutual desire of expanded and augmented bilateral partnership` between Islamabad and Berlin had been reaffirmed duringhis meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday.

`Affordable, yet qualified and highly standardised health service delivery, stays fundamental to enable each and every citizen to realise unhindered potential,` Mr Zardari was quoted as saying.

`We strive for broadened and all-inclusive provision of quality healthcare, particularly for poverty-stricken people in remote areas,` he added.

The president encouraged Siemens to deepen its engagement with Pakistan and diversify its investments across multiple sectors. He also assured the company`s senior executives of `the fullest institutional cooperation` through the Special Investment Facilitation Council.

Later, President Zardari was seen off at Berlin airport as he departed Germany to return home.