India, March 31 -- The vice-minister of The Netherlands' ministry of health, curative care, Barbara Goezinne, was in India to strengthen the bilateral partnership in the pharmaceuticals and medical technology space. In an interview to HT, she said the focus area of the partnership for her country includes drugs regulations, indigenous manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, generic medicines, artificial intelligence, and more efficient health care delivery system with limited resources. Edited excerpts:

What's the agenda of your India visit?

We are here because we want to work together in the field of medicines and med-tech. In Holland, more people are becoming sick as the population is ageing and they need medicines. There'...