Doha: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Health Profession Awareness and Volunteering Programs team recently announced the winners of its health website design contest, which was organised for students at Club Hotel in Hamad bin Khalifa Medical City.
A total of 140 students representing 17 different independent schools for boys took part in the contest.
Awards were presented to five winning schools by Hamad Nasser Al Khalifa, Head, Health Facilities Development, HMC. The first place winner was Jassim Bin Hamad Independent Secondary School for Boys, while Ibn Khaldoun Preparatory Independent School for Boys, Ahmed Bin Hanbal Secondary School for Boys, Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Preparatory Independent School for Boys and Saad Bin Maaz Elementary School for Boys won the second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. All winners also received cash prizes and volunteer certificates for putting in 25 hours into the contest.
Balqees Al Khazraji, Director, Health Profession Awareness and Volunteering Programmes, HMC, said the contest was organised in cooperation with Khalifa Secondary School for Boys under the theme ‘Strengthening Students’ Health is an Investment for the Future’.
“It aimed to promote healthy living among students by raising awareness about the most prevalent diseases in Qatar, their prevention, and how to deliver positive health messages in the best way to achieve Qatar National Vision 2030,” she said.
She said the contest also aimed to challenge the students to show creativity by designing health websites, highlighting topical diseases.
Ghassan Sibsibi, one of the judges and an information technology specialist from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, said the winning projects were chosen based on the selection of photos and videos due to intellectual property rights, designing of a bilingual website (Arabic and English), documentation of the information, and links to well-known health sites, among others.The Peninsula
