the establishment of a Gulf association, Khoja: The launch of the “Kuwait Document” for family medicine, to enhance the sustainability of quality and patient safety
The Secretary-General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, Prof. Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja, confirmed that the “Kuwait Document” that culminated in the Kuwait International Conference of Family Physicians, which concluded its work in Kuwait, included 13 recommendations, including focusing on enhancing concepts of quality and patient safety, and accrediting and qualifying sufficient numbers of specialists in family medicine. In addition to improving the efficiency, performance and governance of professional practice systems for family medicine, and strengthening health information technology and systems in general and family medicine in particular.
Khoja, who participated in the drafting of the document with the committee formed under his chairmanship to issue the document in its final form and appear scientifically, said that the document included coordination with the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, 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 Committee Higher Arab Family Medicine” to develop legislation, regulations and laws and to formulate the necessary strategies to enable this specialization in health systems.
Khoja concluded by saying: The Gulf Society for Family Medicine was established and headed by Dr. Muhammad Al-Mizal Al-Azmi, and its permanent headquarters will be in the State of Kuwait under the umbrella of the Kuwait Medical Association, while ensuring its financial and administrative independence in a manner that does not contradict the regulations of the Kuwaiti Medical Association, with the adoption of a period of 3 years for each council Management, so that a new board of directors is nominated every 3 years.
It is noteworthy that 1,000 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 the Kuwait Conference on Family Medicine.
