12th Arab conference on New Trends in Hospital Administration opens in Dubai.

Challenges and advances in training and development of human resources in the health sectors of Arab countries, discussed at the conference.

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, December 10, 2013:  HE Dr Ahmed bin Kalban, CEO of Primary Healthcare Sector at the DHA inaugurated the 12th Arab Conference on new trends in hospital administration took place today at the Crown Plaza hotel in Dubai.

The conference, is organized by The Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) in corporation with the MOUWASAT Group for medical services and the technical support for the conference is provided by WHO/EMRO.

The main theme of the conference is to discuss the challenges and advances in training and development of Human resources in the Arab Health Sectors.

Kalban said during his opening speech that human resources is crucial to ensure that patients receive international levels of health care and that in the medical field highly qualified professionals are needed for all specialties and subspecialties. He address the need to provide continuous medical education and promote an environment of training and education in the medical field.

Kalban highlighted several of the DHA's ongoing initiatives to promote continuous medical education in the health sector in Dubai.

Professor Refaat Al- Faouri -Director General of the Arab Organization for administrative development said that this conferences comes at a time the health sector of the Arab countries are  witnessing rapid expansion- in terms of health services, health facilities and acquisition of advanced medical technologies.

He said it is well known that human resources knowledge and skills substantiate the quality and efficiency of health services and ensure its compliance and consistency with international standards.  “As a matter of fact, the diversity of professional specialties and job functions (physicians, technicians, nursing, and administration) represents challenges for higher leadership and human resources departments. Therefore, the retaining highly qualified professionals and ensuring their continuous growth and development is paramount to achieve higher levels of patient care and satisfaction.”

He said collaboration of technical, quantitative and qualitative advancement and human resources development necessitates tremendous efforts to build individual and group skills and competencies in order to achieve the maximum benefit from the available human and resources.

Senior hospital staff, members of health ministries, academicians, nursing professionals, deans of healthcare institutes, health management professionals from public and private hospitals, experts in capacity building, representatives of medical insurance companies etc attended the conference.

Representatives from 15 countries took part in the congress. This includes: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, Palestine, Libya, Oman and Somalia.