Kabul Access to Finance Business to Bank Roundtable for Health Sector
Date: August 12, 2014.
ABA with the support from Financial Access for Investing in the Development of Afghanistan (FAIDA), USAID held a one-day ABA-A2F Business to Bank Roundtable for Health sector key players at Kabul Star Hotel, Kabul on August 12, 2014.
The event was hosted in collaboration with USAID funded Health Policy Project (HPP). Around 120 participants from the health sector, businessmen and financial sector participated in the event. Invitees included public and private sector (Health) representatives who are involved in offering medical examination services, production, trade and financing activities in health sector. In the event, Afghanistan Private Hospital Association (APHA), Afghanistan Medicine Service Organizations (AMNSO) took part.
The event commenced by welcoming remarks of Mr. Masood Khan Musa Ghazi, ABA Vice Chairman addressing on ABA activities and achievements. Mr. Ghazi, welcomed all the participants from Health Sector, FAIDA/USAID, ABA member banks and associations in health sector. Moreover, he focused on importance of such events in promoting Afghanistan banking sector.
On the other hand, Mr. Ahmad Javed Wafa, ABA Director Economic Research attended panel discussion with representatives from ABA member banks and health sector related association.
In total, nine ABA member banks participated in the event in which six of them delivered presentation on their services to the audience. At the end, ABA member banks had opportunity to showcase their banks’ promotional materials and presented their financial products and services to the participants. Furthermore, ABA member banks participated in Business to Bank (B2B) round table meetings, had detailed conversation with the interested entrepreneurs and processed the potential deals. The Member banks had a deals of USD 12 Million with their potential customers.
