does not have access to basic health services
An interactive medical gathering launched today remotely under the auspices of Dr. Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Manea, former Minister of Health, President of the Arab Academy for Excellence in Governance, President of the Arab Federation for Combating Counterfeiting and Counterfeiting, and with the participation of experts representing 20 Arab and international bodies, called for the necessity of activating and strengthening the concept of governance in the system Health services and their role in improving the quality of services provided.
In his speech, Dr. Hamad Al-Manea emphasized that governance is at the heart of the goals and objectives of the national vision, as well as the main axis of sustainable development initiatives and programs for any country that strives to achieve equity, justice and transparency in all its development plans and national development programs.
Al-Manea added that the reality of the situation is that more than half of the world’s population does not have access to basic health services, which requires planning, conducting and implementing more transparent and credible programs towards achieving health for all and by all, and in this way we will a world in which everyone enjoys better health, more security and greater equity.
The meeting kicked off with a speech by the Chairman of the Supreme Committee and General Supervisor of the Conference, Vice President of the Arab Federation for Combating Counterfeiting and Counterfeiting, and Vice President of the Arab Academy for Governance, Professor Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, in which he explained that governance has become attracting the attention of the whole world and has become the main concern of officials regarding what it requires to achieve goals Sustainable development, the changes taking place in health care concepts, strategies, methods of delivery, escalating costs, the introduction of various health insurance systems, and the call for health and responsible bodies to carry out health reforms and use modern technology in health care provision.
Prof. Khoja stressed that the issues of governance and its improvement have attracted everyone’s attention and something like a revolution has occurred in this field, as countries take this issue seriously and unleash their latent energies and are interested in training, research and preparing cadres in the fields concerned with governance.
For his part, Professor Imad Al-Azzazi stressed that all sustainable development plans, as well as health for all programs, focus on health governance, as a goal that everyone seeks, especially in light of the many health challenges.
To this, one of the attendees touched on the challenges facing health system governance in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including weak health governance, conflicting roles in various public sector institutions, weak organizational capacity and participatory governance in the decision-making process, and finally weak organizational and administrative arrangements that affect health systems.
For her part, the former Egyptian Minister of Health and Population, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al-Aini, Professor Maha Zine El Abidine, Rabat, addressed in her lecture the aspects of governance standards in health technology assessments and aggregated procurement issues.
While the Director-General of the Food and Drug Administration in the Kingdom of Jordan, Prof. Nizar Mhaidat, spoke about strengthening governance as a systematic approach and culture in the Jordanian Food and Drug Administration, and Prof. Assaf Al-Assaf spoke about aspects of accountability and transparency in ensuring the quality of health care, and Prof. Salman Rawaf spoke in his lecture about the British model of system governance. While Dr. Alaa Hamed addressed in his lecture the aspects of governance of the health insurance system from the World Bank. Health expert Professor Tawfiq Khoja spoke about governance for patient safety and sustainability.
