Supreme Council of Health

New licensing system for health care practitioners

DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) will soon introduce a new examination system for private health care practitioners seeking a licence to work in Qatar.

The exams that had been conducted inside Qatar will be outsourced under the new system. The Medical Licensing Committee at SCH will soon sign an agreement with a leading international company, specialising in competency tests, to conduct the examinations, Dr Jamal Rashid Al Khanji, Director of the Department said yesterday.

The new exam system, to be introduced in the first quarter of 2010, is part of the changes being made in the medical licensing procedures in Qatar to make them compatible with international standards.

H1N1 claims one more life in Qatar
Influenza A(H1N1) virus has claimed another life raising the number of deaths to seven in Qatar, the Supreme Council of Health has announced.
The latest victim, a 31-year-old Indian woman, died yesterday after she was diagnosed with H1N1 virus infection. She was admitted to Hamad Hospital on November 6 suffering from rheumatic fever, cardiac diseases, breathing difficulty and high temperature.
On Tuesday, a Pakistani youth, 17, died due to the virus after suffering from complications of temperature and pneumonia and was later diagnosed with a kidney disease known as Nephritic Syndrome.
The council will hold a press conference on Sunday. The meeting will be addressed by the Public Health Department director Dr Mohamed al-Thani.

To all of you my friends who kept wating for the return of Ministry of public health web site which was replaced by National Health Authority which was again replced by Supreme Council of Health.

am here by to announce the Lunching Supreme Council of Health web site with all the Old & NEW services.

check it out at www.sch.gov.qa

Regards to all.

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Schools are set to reopen tomorrow after a week’s delay which was ordered as a precautionary step against the spread of H1N1 flu

By Anwar Elshamy
Staff Reporter

The Supreme Council of Health has confirmed that all schools in the country will reopen tomorrow, even as a senior official highlighted the WHO recommendation for closure of any school with more than 1% of students infected with the H1N1 swine flu.

A senior health official yesterday hinted that all residents in Qatar are likely to be vaccinated against Influenza A (H1N1) by January 2010. However, it was unclear when the vaccine will be available in the country.
Speaking at a one-day preventive measures against influenza A(H1N1) workshop organised by the Supreme Council of Health for school nurses and staff, Medicine Department chairman Dr Abdullatif al-Khal noted that two major campaigns were being launched in the country to combat and slow down the spread of the virus.
The workshop was being sponsored by the Qatar National Bank.

Schools told not to delay reopening over H1N1 fears

The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) yesterday asked all schools in Qatar to resume classes as earlier scheduled while urging them to follow precautions and guidelines issued by the council in dealing with the H1N1 cases.

Hi All, as i have just got the birth certificate for my baby today morning i would like to share with you the new office Location of the NHA Office (Supreme Council of Health)

If you are coming from the CHN University (know known as Stenden Unversity) go straight towards the Fire Brigade round-about and take a right. The Big Blue Building on the Main Road in Hamad Medical City. Go to counter 5 or 6 for Birth registration process.

Hope this info helps you guys out there.

A Qatari man who died after he was diagnosed with the H1N1 swine flu virus had been staying in Dubai, according to the Qatar News Agency.

The man was reported to have been obese, which is considered a significant risk factor for the disease. It was Qatar’s first death from swine flu.

The Gulf Times reported that the man had pneumonia and a high temperature when he was admitted to Hamad General Hospital in Doha last Monday.

It quoted hospital sources as saying he had been to hospital in Dubai twice, but it was at Hamad that a diagnosis was made and he was put in intensive care.

Officials working in swine flu prevention at the Ministry of Health were not available for comment.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia confirmed its fourth death due to swine flu.