Oman's Majlis Al Shura to host health minister

Muscat: Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Sa’eedi, Minister of Health, will be hosted next Wednesday and Thursday by Sheikh Ali bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi, Secretary General of Majlis Al Shura at its 14th and 15th regular sessions of the first annual sitting (2015/2016) of the eighth term (2015-2019) .
Sheikh Al Mahrouqi pointed out that the statement of the Minister of Health will include seven themes, namely health plans and strategies, public health, medical and treatment services, human resources and infrastructure, the private health sector, health education and rehabilitation, and treatment abroad.
He added that the first theme refers to the achievements in the health sector of the 8th five-year plan, projects that the ministry was not able to achieve and the challenges facing the ministry.
He explained that the second theme includes indicators of the total expenditure on health services to the total government expenditure.
He added that the third theme includes health care, assessment of the current situation, its future vision, and indicators of the quality of services provided at the reference hospitals
Medical regulation
Sheikh Al Mahrouqi further said that the fourth theme of the statement of the Minister of Health refers to medical regulation, as well as the plans and programmes of the ministry to increase the number of Omanis working in medical jobs, technical and engineering disciplines,
In the private health sector, he said that the Minister of Health will speak about the regulating policies for the private sector health, the vision targeted by the government in this aspect, and the regulation, follow-up and control of private health and pharmaceutical institutions.
The Secretary General of Majlis Al Shura pointed out that the sixth theme will be on health education and rehabilitation, its regulating policies, health education and the needs of the Sultanate for medical cadres and medical supporting staff.
He added that the seventh theme will include treatment abroad as the Minister of Health will review the ministry’s efforts in this regard, and the cases that were dispatched, the mechanism used, and the number of such cases over the past years.