SCH holds workshop on vaccine management
QNA/Doha
The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has organised a workshop on vaccine management for training 31 healthcare providers, including 24 nurses, from all health centres.
Dr Mohamed al-Hajri, manager of Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control at the SCH’s Public Health Department, said that the workshop which was organised in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Corporation, aimed at providing the participants with information and necessary skills for storage and delivery of vaccines as well as its distribution and transportation as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.
Dr al-Hajri also explained that the workshop seeks to map out a proposal for the management of vaccines during emergencies, encouraging co-operation between the national immunisation programme with other health workers, as well as procedures for the registration of data and reach the children who have not been vaccinated.
He noted that the workshop comes within framework of a research study which is carried out by the department of Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) at the Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control at the SCH’s Public Health Department entitled “Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the EPI and the cold chain system between service providers from the primary health centres working in the State of Qatar for the year 2013.”
During the workshop, several lectures were delivered to strengthen the partnership between the concerned parties.
16 WCMC-Q students on way to becoming physicians
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A total of 16 Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) students completed the Foundation Programme last week as they moved closer to becoming qualified physicians. |
The students were presented with certificates of completion in front of an audience of their parents and faculty members, including college dean Dr Javaid I Sheikh, in a ceremony held at WCMC-Q.
The programme helps students improve their English and provides a solid grounding in the basic sciences, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully undertake the university’s Premedical Programme.
Dr Marco Ameduri, associate dean for premedical education, addressed the audience and congratulated the students. He said: “You all worked very hard while we put a lot of demands on you, so you really deserve to celebrate today. I want to thank you for your commitment, your families for supporting you and our wonderful faculty and teaching assistants for their hard work. In this course we have been dealing with the very fundamental and basic facts of nature, but these concepts are not easy to understand or to grasp – you have done a wonderful job.”
Dr Ameduri and Dr Kevin Smith, assistant dean for premedical education, presented the completion certificates to the students.
Student Aldana Shahbik said: “It is a relief to have completed the programme, which has been really inspiring for me. We went through a lot to get here, but it has been worth it because I now feel much more confident about taking on the Premedical Programme.”
The students who completed the programme are Hanof Ahmed, Latifa al -Badr, Dena al-Dabhani, Fatima al- Mohannadi, Hamad Almuhannadi, Soud al-Mulla, Aisha al-Shahwani, Mohamed Alsubaie, Shaika al-Thani, Mohamed El Debs, Gawaher Elkhatib, Yasser Janahi, Reem Mubarak, Maryam Own, Ramez Rawhani, and Aldana Shahbik.
Qatar condemns JEM leader’s assassination
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Qatar has expressed strong condemnation and denunciation of the assassination of Mohamed Bashar, the leader of Sudan’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) which signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government in Doha in April, along with his aide and a number of the movement’s leaders which took place on Monday morning near the Sudanese-Chadian border.
An official source at the Foreign Ministry told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that Qatar condemns such criminal acts, which represent a threat to the Darfur peace process, and calls upon the international community to denounce this heinous crime.
Qatar has called on the international and regional organisations to put pressure on the armed movements, the source said.
The source expressed Qatar’s condolences and sympathy to the Sudanese government and to the families of the victims.
It reasserted Qatar’s firm stance against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Meanwhile, HE Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Council of Ministers Affairs, and Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the AU-UN Joint Special Representative/Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur, have also condemned in the strongest terms the assassination of the leadership of the Justice and Equality Movement-Sudan (JEM-Sudan) Mohamed Bashar and Arko Suleiman Dahiya, the president and vice-president of the JEM-Sudan respectively, and the abduction of several members of the JEM-Sudan leadership.
National Day greetings sent
HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani have sent cables of congratulations to the president of Paraguay on his country’s National Day.
Qatar-Morocco ties discussed
HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday received a phone call from King Mohamed VI of Morocco. They reviewed bilateral ties between Qatar and Morocco and means of boosting them in addition to discussing a set of other issues of mutual concern.
Heir Apparent meets AFC chief
HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who is also the Chairman of Qatar Olympic Committee, met the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifah, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday.
The Heir Apparent congratulated Sheikh Salman on winning the presidency of the AFC and the membership of the Executive Office of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), wishing him success in his assignments and the Asian sports further development.
For his part, Sheikh Salman praised the co-operation between the AFC and Qatar, and hailed Qatar’s leading role in the organisation of key Asian and international sport events.
PM congratulates Nawaz Sharif
HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani held a phone conversation with Nawaz Sharif, the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party.
The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister congratulated Nawaz Sharif on his party winning in the parliamentary elections.
Bilateral ties with Oman reviewed
Oman’s Deputy Premier for the Cabinet’s Affairs Fahad bin Mahmoud al-Saeed, has received a written message from HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, pertaining to relations between the two countries. HE the Minister of Economy and Finance Yousef Hussein Kamal handed over the message during a meeting in Muscat yesterday with Fahad bin Mahmoud al-Saeed.