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According to a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), the new strategy of the government to boost private investment in the health sector would result in better healthcare services in the country at competitive prices. The SCH has entered into a strategic partnership with the private sector to run the new hospitals and [...] Qatar enters into stem cell research and will focus on diabetes at the outset, which brings a glimmer of hope to diabetics because more than 15 percent of the population are suffering from diabetes. “Our focus in Qatar is to have innovative research for the benefit of the world. Stem cell therapy is one such area [...] The Supreme Council for Health recently saw the conclusion of “Healthy Steps to Doha” programme, initiated in association with Supreme Education Council (SEC) to help increase health awareness and combat child obesity in schools. “Obesity has become one of the major epidemics with the latest statistics from World Health Organization showing one billion people as obese [...] The Qatar Foundation and Supreme Council of Health (SCH) launched a campaign against smoking, aiming to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco, in and around Education City. The campaign is organized annually by the World Health Organization and in Qatar by the Supreme Council of Health, began recently in the Liberal Arts and Sciences building [...] Top international health experts will be met in Doha for the inaugural edition of the International Forum for Supporting Health Professional Education in Palestine-Gaza Programme. The event is organized by Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) in collaboration with PIMA, Doctors Worldwide-Turkey, the National Committee for Health Education in Palestine and the Jordanian Committee for Support of [...] The Tobacco Control Unit under the Supreme Council of Health registered an increasing number of violations as part of its campaign against those violating the anti-tobacco law in Qatar. The SCH has imposed fines amounting to a total of QR74,000 on smokers endangering public health, during inspections conducted in several shopping centres across the city since [...] The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) launched a study to identify the causes behind the high prevalence of respiratory problems among children in Qatar. Dr Ibrahim Al Janahi, paediatric consultant at HMC, said asthma and upper and lower respiratory tract infections were widespread among children in Qatar. “The survey will focus on students from all schools to find [...] Qatar has seen an increased number of renal transplants amounting up to the number of procedures done in 2008 and 2009 taken together over the last three months. Dr Riadh Fadhil, Senior Consultant at the Department of Surgery/Urology, HMC, said “This year we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in kidney transplants. In 2008 only three procedures [...] Hamad Medical Corporation is hosting the first ever Middle East Metabolic Dieticians workshop on the 2nd and 3rd of April, at Hajar auditorium. Over 60 dieticians and physicians from GCC and other countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Jordon, Libya and Syria, along with experts from Germany, will discuss and deliberate on the latest developments in the [...] The pilot project of Qatar’s National Health Insurance Scheme is ready for launch by next year. The law is ready and the government is working on the implementation aspect of the Scheme, said Minister of Public Health H E Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani. He also revealed that the country’s first military hospital is under [...] |
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