MUSCAT: The Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on Monday signed a Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) with the World Health Organization (WHO) to achieve the health impact for supporting the country's national policy, strategy and plans to promote and improve the health of all people in Oman.
The Sultanate is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region that has completed the improvement of the strategy by following a new consultation methodology, which is considered as an example worldwide.
The strategy clarifies the technical cooperation aspects to respond to the Sultanate's priorities and needs. It addresses its national health policy and health-related sustainable development goals and targets.
Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Saeedi, Minister of Health, and Dr Jean Jabbour, WHO Representative to the Sultanate, signed the strategy in the presence of the MoH's undersecretaries and senior officials.
The Minister of Health pointed out that this fourth strategy is coming in line with Oman 10th five-year health development plan 2021 – 2025, and after the national strategic programs for the Oman 2040 vision.
He added that the strategy supports the national health priorities and augments the ongoing projects and plans. Therefore, the CCS will be the guide of collaboration with the WHO in the coming five years.
Al Saeedi stressed that broad consultation and the heavy involvement, and the well-made alignment of the CCS with the 5-year plans and the 2040 strategic health objectives make the CCS a model for all countries in the region.
The CCS aims to strengthen and guide cooperation between WHO and MoH as the steward of all stakeholders operating in the health sector in mutually agreed priority areas, support the country's national health policy, strategy or plan, contribute to promote, maintain, recover and improve the health of all people living in Oman, as well as contribute to health and wellbeing in the EMR and beyond, in line with the EMR Vision Health for All by All and GPW13.
The WHO Representative to the Sultanate pointed out in his speech that the CCS for Oman is a result of the WHO reviews and consultative interventions of the concerned experts with the Ministry of Health officials over the past two years. Jabbour expressed his thanks to the MoH leadership and the WHO office in the Sultanate for developing the 2021 – 2025 strategy in line with the Oman 5-year health development plan.
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