the “Kuwait Document” with many recommendations, topped by quality control and patient safety
The Gulf Society of Family Physicians and the Kuwaiti Association of Family Physicians launched the “Kuwait Document” for family medicine under the slogan “A family doctor for every family”, at the conclusion of the Kuwait International Conference of Family Physicians, which was sponsored by the Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadi, and an intervention from the Regional Director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari and the participation of a number of national, Gulf and Arab institutions and bodies.
The President of the Gulf Society of Family Physicians and the President of the Kuwaiti Family Physicians Association, Dr. Muhammad Al-Mizal Al-Azmi, said in a press statement that the document included coordination with the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States, the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean Region and the League of Arab States to form a high-level committee under the name “The Arab Committee Supreme Council of Family Medicine” to develop legislation, regulations and laws and to formulate the necessary strategies to enable this specialization in health systems.
Dr. Al-Azmi pointed out that the document focused on the priorities of work in family medicine axes, such as the sustainability of applying quality concepts and patient safety, improving quality control and evidence-based practices in family medicine, as well as spreading the culture of correct health management, with the need to focus on comprehensive and integrated health care of quality. And safety by family physicians and setting standards for measuring performance, in addition to enabling family physicians to play their role and functional teachers, and adopting and qualifying sufficient numbers of family medicine specialists and the rest of the members of the health team as a top priority strategy over the next ten years according to an effective timetable.
He noted that the document also focused on leadership and improving the efficiency, performance and governance of professional practice systems for family medicine, strengthening technology and health information systems in general and family medicine in particular, and strengthening joint health work for innovative and creative studies and research in relation to health systems and family medicine.
Dr. Al-Azmi stated that the document also included a request from the Arab ministries of health and specialized agencies to conduct a comprehensive and accurate review of family medicine with its various components. I would like to stand on the strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities available for the optimal application of family medicine, in addition to improving the promotion ladder for workers in primary health care and working on Allocate special incentives for them, and work to build the capacities of members of the health team for primary health care and infrastructure in the field of preparedness and response to emergencies and health crises within the comprehensive and integrated health system.
He explained that the document also included strengthening membership in associations specializing in family medicine “nationally - Gulf - internationally” to further network specialists in family medicine and develop their role in protecting the health of the individual, family and communities, and urged university educational institutions and the Commission for National and Arab Health Specialties to establish the College of Family Medicine And the need to search for innovative and creative ways, including technology for female teachers and social media, to support and enhance the role of beneficiaries of family services and activities.
He stated that the document also included urging specialists in family medicine to additional qualification through programs to build specialized interests in medicine programs fpsi, and agreement on the need to enhance coordination between Gulf health universities in issues of primary health care and family medicine, exchange information, normative evidence and studies, and work to harmonize and harmonize efforts. With the international developmental directives for family medicine and contributing to the implementation of the decisions of the Council of Health Ministers of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries related to this matter.
In a related context, the President of the Gulf Society of Family Physicians, Dr. Muhammad Al-Mizal Al-Azmi, praised the distinguished and great efforts made by His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, Professor Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, in drafting the Kuwait Document for Family Medicine, as he contributed efficiently and effectively with the committee formed under his chairmanship. To issue the document in its final form and appear in scientific form, as this document will be submitted to the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean countries, as well as the League of Arab States, along with the concerned health authorities.
It is worth noting that the Kuwait Conference on Family Medicine included 35 participants at the invitation of the Merit Association for Family Physicians and General Practitioners, and 1000 male and female doctors in the specialty of family medicine from Kuwait, the Gulf, the Arab world and the United States of America participated in it.
