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Khalifeh calls for inter-Arab collaboration in healthcare
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08 March 2010
BEIRUT: Health Minister Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh called for collaboration in the medical field among Arab states Sunday during the launching of the 6th International Medical Convention for the Lebanese Order of Physicians.
He said the world was living in a time of globalization and free markets, and borders were fading away as was happening in the EU and as would later happen between Arab countries.
“The market of medical services is an open market between Lebanon and other Arab countries but we need to work on protecting it by being firm when it comes to quality standards,” he added.
Khalifeh went on to stress the importance of unions in protecting the rights of physicians and in raising the level of professionalism.
He also referred to a number of problems the health sector was facing in Lebanon.
He started by discussing the shortage in trained personnel, saying “the health sector is lacking medical personnel in certain fields.” Khalifeh then suggested that the order play a role in solving the problem by guiding medical students in choosing certain fields.
He added that the state should reorganize certain medical care sectors in order to provide thousands of people with job opportunities.
“We are working on a new program to organize emergency care,” he also said, noting however that only 20 physicians in the country were specialized in emergency medicine.
Khalifeh also tackled the issue of medical insurance and social security and said the situation was “very dangerous.”
Vice president of the Walid Bin Talal Foundation, former Labor Minister Leila al-Solh Hamadeh also gave a speech during the gathering in which she announced that the head of the Beirut Order of Physicians George Aftimos was named secretary general of the Arab Physicians Union.
Solh added that the union’s head office would be moved from Egypt to Lebanon, and called on everyone to be proud of this achievement. – The Daily Star
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