Like many others sectors of the state, Qatar’s healthcare system is witnessing a constant rise due to far-sighted approach of the government and consistent hard work from the officials of the Ministry of Public Health.
ediedWith every passing day, Qatar is becoming a country which is providing not only the most modern healthcare services to its people suffering with various diseases but also taking huge steps to save the population from different health disorders through chalking out timely strategies and their impeccable implementation mechanisms.
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has officially launched 2018-22 Strategic Framework for Combating Viral Hepatitis in Qatar. The strategic framework aims to eliminate viral hepatitis in Qatar by 2030 by completely eliminating new infections among the community while reducing the spread of chronic infections and reducing mortality rate caused by viral hepatitis.
The framework reflects a full commitment to the implementation of high-quality disease control interventions at the national level, said the Ministry in a statement issued yesterday.
The most important interventions planned in the Strategic Framework are to maintain high levels of coverage of disease awareness and early screening services and to increase the number of beneficiaries of care and treatment services easily and at low cost especially among the most vulnerable groups of the disease.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Qatar is a country with a low burden of viral hepatitis B, with a prevalence of less than 2 percent. International scientific reports have shown that Qatar is on track to eliminate viral hepatitis C by 2030.
Improved life expectancy, better health outcomes, and investment in health infrastructure have led to Qatar being ranked 5th in the world for health by the Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank in March this year.
Qatar was the only country in the region to score in the top five on the annual prosperity index, placing behind Singapore, Luxembourg, Japan, and Switzerland.
Qatar also ranked strongly for a number of health outcomes. The nation has the highest life expectancy rate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and has seen the crude death rate per 100,000 population decline throughout this decade, from 99.1 in 2014 to 80.2 in 2017. Additionally, infant mortality rates have declined consistently in recent years, from 7.4 per 1,000 live births in 2015 to 5.4 per 1,000 live births in 2017.
In May this year, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) added another feather in its cap by becoming one of the very few organ transplant centres in the world that perform transplant surgery for a donor and recipient whose blood type does not match.
