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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Health Launches command and control center

Health Launches command and control center
03 August 1435
The Ministry of Health today's command and control center, and a new unit for the permanent protection of the public and raise the degree of preparedness for any health challenges in the future.

Centre will ensure that the command and control of the Ministry of Health department's ability to do pre-emptive action and fast in front of any future challenges related to public health in the Kingdom such as corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome, the Middle East through the coordination efforts and ongoing monitoring.

It features a command and control center of the Ministry of Health doctors, scientists, researchers, health care professionals and emergency planning. It was the development of the center, which operates under the direct supervision of the Minister of Health, in collaboration with international experts and organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

HE Engineer Adel bin Mohammed Faqih, Minister of Health in charge: "We have gained the cadres of the ministry of many experiences through dealing with the challenges of HIV corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East, respiratory, and that was the reason for the formation of a new unit combines various experts under one roof to take a proactive approach from now on. "

HE added: "The new center will help us to deal more effectively with the current challenges, as it will contribute to higher levels of overall preparedness for the future, in addition to upgrading the quality of the health care sector in the Kingdom in general."

And has been structured command and control center of the Ministry of Health to manage the health challenges in a scientific and systematic, and the center has now 11 platform, specializes in every one of them to deal with a specific topic, and all working under the supervision and coordination of platform control tower, which constitute the nerve center for the work of the command and control center.

The platforms include eleven:

1 - control tower: monitoring unit and the central coordination of the efforts of command and control center.

2 - Coordination IPCC: coordinate efforts with the necessary government partners and provide them with information updated.

3 - Public Health: data collection and epidemiological investigation and coordination with international partners.

4 - medical advisory board: a schedule of work and management of human and veterinary research. And counseling for the control tower and the rest of the platforms to answer questions about the scientific and medical.

5 - laboratory diagnosis: make sure to collect samples and examine and make necessary reports during a specific time period.

6 - support the fight against epidemics: provide substantiated information for decision-makers and to provide recommendations for preventive measures and control measures during Hajj and Umrah seasons for example.

7 - Anti-Infection: infection prevention and control in health care facilities and public information in ways appropriate preventive.

8 - Capacity Development: To ensure the availability of the necessary resources in health care facilities for patient care without the risk of transmission.

9 - therapeutic platform processes: to provide optimal health care for confirmed cases and cases developed symptoms of respiratory syndrome, the Middle East, according to international standards adopted.

10 - Analysis of data: data management and analysis for the infection in order to track the disease and the formation of ideas and visions medical

11 - Contact: information management and public outreach and education efforts and coordinate communication within the health care sector
For his part, Dr. Tariq Madani - Advisor to the Minister and the President of the medical advisory board, "through the control tower the center's new, we now have the capacity and resources necessary to control any challenges to public health through accurate information and updated constantly, and to ensure that appropriate action immediately by team charge, whether it be by air transport the patient to a particular hospital for example, or making sure the necessary scientific research on the behavior of a virus. "

In the same context, said Dr. Anis Cindy, member of the medical advisory board and president of platform operations therapeutic: "During the past few weeks, has been dealing with the challenges important part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East respiratory, I represent to make sure that the Ministry of Health has a full and accurate understanding of the current situation with scientific data and documented. second challenge, it has focused on ensuring that positive cases of HIV on the best levels of medical care, and without exposing any of the health personnel or members of the community to the risk of the spread of infection. "

Added Dr. Cindy "was adopted strict guidelines for infection control in all health care facilities in the Kingdom, as we have established a system for evaluation and development, and inspection for compliance with these guidelines in hospitals, and we are working hard to ensure that medical and health care facilities all over the kingdom to training and resources necessary immediately when they need them. "

Under the ministry's commitment to the principle of transparency and accuracy of the information, a team work of command and control center comprehensive review of the cases that have been found infected with the disease in all hospitals and medical centers across the country since the advent of corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome Middle East. The database information resulting from these efforts of the ministry and the center, researchers, doctors and specialists epidemic diseases, valuable and necessary tool to deal with the challenge of Corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome Middle East in the best way possible.