Kuwait hosts the 11th Kuwait Conference and the Gulf Nursing Symposium sponsored by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah between November 18-20.
The conference will tackle nursing as a tool to face non-communicable diseases, said Dr. Qais Al-Duwairi, the Ministry of Health Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Affairs and member of the executive body of the GCC Council of Health Ministers, in a press statement on Saturday.
It is organized by the Nursing Services Department of the Ministry of Health and the Executive Office of the GCC Council of Health Ministers in collaboration with the regional office of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean.
Its main objectives are presentation of scientific research in the field of nursing and to shed light on the scientific studies in addressing chronic non-communicable diseases as well as establishing a mechanism for cooperation between the GCC countries' institutions to address these challenges.
He said that the conference also aims to develop a Gulf strategy on nursing among the GCC countries for non-communicable diseases as it represents an important issue for public health between the GCC countries in the framework of the obligation to implement the Political Declaration adopted by the United Nations in September 2011 and the resolutions of the relevant World Health Organization to improve public health and tackle chronic diseases.
Al-Duwairi pointed to the approval of the Health Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in their 36th conference on the allocation of an award for the best nurse in each GCC country in recognition of their efforts in the nursing profession and for serving their communities.