of the Gulf Society for Family Medicine and its permanent headquarters in Kuwait
The Kuwaiti Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadi, inaugurated the activities of the Kuwait International Conference on Family Medicine, in the presence of a large and distinguished male and female doctors from Kuwait, the Gulf countries and the Arab world.
The Kuwaiti Minister of Health blessed the establishment of the Gulf Society for Family Medicine and its permanent headquarters in the State of Kuwait.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadi, affirmed keenness to support the capabilities of the health system under the umbrella of universal health coverage to meet the challenges facing health care to achieve goals and objectives consistent with the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan and Kuwait Vision 2035.
He stressed the importance of conferences that focus on developing medical culture, choosing topics, exchanging opinions, and keeping abreast of the latest global developments.
He pointed to the importance of the specialty of family medicine, considering it one of the first lines of defense in the health system and the health of the patient, the family and society, and its role in laying the health foundations towards prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and education.
In his turn, the head of the Kuwaiti Association for Family Medicine and the head of the Gulf Society of Family Physicians, the head of the conference, Dr. Muhammad Al-Azmi, said that the real investment of the health system is the investment in family medicine as it is the basis and the first stage in providing medical services. To consolidate the concept of family medicine in the Arab Gulf region and to develop the health system on a strong base based on primary health care.
He pointed out that the conference deals with issues related to the future of family medicine and discusses the most important challenges, hopes and aspirations to advance this specialization, build meaningful partnerships and hold effective dialogues.
He explained that the conference discusses the future of family medicine in light of the challenges of information technology and artificial intelligence systems, as well as discussing the challenges of the global shortage of human cadres and qualifying them to meet the needs and aspirations of the specialty.
For his part, Vice President of the Saudi Society of Family Physicians, representative of the Gulf Society of Family Medicine, Dr. Ashraf Amir, said that the conference sheds light on an important aspect and an essential element of the promising transformation in our health system, which is family medicine.
He pointed out that in light of the development of health services and the qualitative transformation that our countries are witnessing and its reflection on the quality of medical services, it is hoped that it will positively affect the health of the individual and ensure prevention and recovery.
And he indicated that the Gulf Society for Family Medicine aims to provide support and empower leadership for the specialty of family medicine and practitioners to lead effective health systems, exchange expertise, experiences and initiatives, and formulate health policies that will improve the quality of medical outputs and reach the aspirations.
For his part, the head of the World Organization of Family Physicians for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mahrezi, said that the organization aims to improve the quality of life and raise the level of comprehensive and continuous health care for individuals by strengthening the role of family medicine and raising the readiness and competence of family doctors.
He pointed out that it encourages cooperation and communication between parties interested in family medicine at the local, regional and international levels, pointing out that it includes 131 countries around the world, including 15 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region, and nearly half a million family doctors belong to it.
