(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY Jan 20 (KUNA): The Ministry of Health has in place a well-meaning national health strategy chief among whose pillars is to provide optimum eye care to the public in cooperation with expertise from the WHO said Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi on Tuesday at the opening of a streamlined outpatient eye clinic.
The ministry's far-reaching and ambitious strategy involves updating current hospitals and building new ones and consecrating all efforts at providing all patients with excellent care now and beyond the boundaries of the nation's development plan for the period after 2015 said the minister in a speech opening the streamlined eye clinic and two wards at a burns center and a new microbiological lab. With regard to eye care he said the ministry was working closely with the WHO to provide eye care in the best way possible now and through 2020 noting that the nation's major eye care center known as the Abdulrahman Al-Bahar eye center had recently organized a successful workshop for its staff in conjunction with the WHO to ensure that eye diseases are well attended and treated by them.
Microbiological
He made mention in his speech to the new microbiological lab at the Ibn Sina Hospital saying it was fully equipped to handle speedy requests for examinations and tests especially those necessitating the selection of the right kind of antibiotic medicine. Meanwhile the unprecedented spike in the number of Kuwaitis suffering from obesity heart disease cancer diabetes and other common chronic non-communicable diseases is cause for alarm among health providers said a health ministry official on Tuesday.
In a speech at a Gulf-orientated forum held here today Assistant Secretary for Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Health Dr Qais Al- Dwairi stressed to Gulf health officials at the forum the need to spread awareness among Gulf region populations to follow a healthy regimen of food and exercise to ward off modern day diseases usually contracted because of unwise lifestyle choices. Realizing the ubiquity of these modern day lifestyle ailments he said the Ministry of Health has formed a national committee for the prevention and combatting of chronic non-communicable diseases noting that the committee reflects those who work within it and they come from government non-government and civil society bodies.
Furthermore keeping in mind the public's health he said the Ministry of Health has initiated that all breads and bakery items produced by the nation's largest bakery Kuwait Flour Mills Co should have 20 percent less salt the latter having adverse effect on blood pressure among other ailments.
Kuwait moreover he pointed out fostered the declaration of Kuwait issued by the GCC ministers of health in January 2014 as a regional development measure in the face of prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. A similar declaration also came out in April 2013 in a regional WHO meeting in Kuwait he said.
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