Qatar participates in 38th session of the Arab Health Ministers'Council

The Arab Health Ministers' Council opened its 38th session here on Monday on the sidelines of the 65th session of for the World Health Assembly (WHA). Qatar's delegation to the session was led by HE Minister of Public Health Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani, who is also the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH). The Arab Health Ministers' council issued at the conclusion of its meeting, a set of resolutions and recommendations, including with regard to health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan, as it emphasized in this context, the previous resolutions of the said council for asking the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to send a fact-finding committee to probe into the health situation in the occupied territories, demand Israel to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, prevent the deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in the strip and its claim to work to fulfill its legal responsibility to for the protection of the inalienable human rights in the Palestinian territories and facilitate the entry of medical personnel to participate in the rescue and treatment activities. The council also urged the member states to provide urgent support for the Palestinian people lauding meantime the donor states for their support in the health field. The participants in the session of the approved the unified speech of the Arab health ministers before the WHO General Assembly. The Council of the Arab Health Ministers meantime agreed on the draft memorandum of understanding held between the arab side and the Ministry of Health of China on Sino-Arab work in the health field and which is scheduled to be signed between by the two sides during the fifth session of the Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum to be held in Tunis next week. Moreover, the arab health ministers meantime agreed to provide financial support of US DLRS. 50,000 for the Arab Organization for blood transfusion services to be deducted from the Arab Fund for Health Development. The council also decided to form to form the Executive Office of the Council in each of Libya, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine.