Ali Abdullah Al Khater, the Ministry of Public Health’s healthcare communications committee chair and HMC’s chief communications officer
DOHA: Hamad Medical Cooperation (HMC) is reviewing the latest developments in health care in the State of Qatar through its participation in the 19th annual forum of the Arab Hospitals Federation (AHF), which launches on Sunday in the Omani capital of Muscat under the theme of partnership to develop the healthcare sector.
The aim of the forum is to highlight the need of all the stakeholders in the Arab healthcare sector to sit together and create a cooperative platform in which ideas can become tangible solutions.
The health system in Qatar ranked 13th in the list of the world’s best health systems and the first in the Middle East region, according to Legatum Prosperity Index for 2017, which measures and classifies health status in 149 countries.
Ali Abdullah Al Khater, the Ministry of Public Health’s healthcare communications committee chair and HMC’s chief communications officer who also heads the cooperation delegation to the forum, said that HMC is keen to annually attend the forum in order to learn about global and Arab developments in the field of healthcare and take advantage of them in therapeutic and development programs within HMC’s commitment to work for the benefit of all influential health events and transferring its long-term healthcare experience as the main provider of healthcare services in the country.
Al Khater further noted that through the strong partnerships of HMC with government health care institutions and academic health system partners and research locally and globally, the health care services provided by HMC have been able to meet universally recognized standards in terms of quality and sophistication.
The 19th AHF annual forum addresses the development of the role of healthcare facilities through attention to aspects of therapeutic services, specialized funds, quality and safety methods, health leadership and capacity management available at these facilities as well as issues related to the development of technical regulations within healthcare facilities and therapeutic tourism in the Arab region.
The two-day event also includes a specialized medical exhibit with the participation of a large number of Arab health institutions and global companies in the provision of medical services and the production of their own equipment where the latest discoveries and techniques are presented in various medical fields.
