The First Conference in Yemen on Health and Technical Administration, 1-3 August 2000 [Archives:2000/32/Health]

On the occasion of the Yemeni Doctor And Pharmacist’s Day and under the patronage of the President, Yemeni Doctors and Pharmacists Syndicate held on 1-3 August the first Conference for Health and Technical Administration at the syndicate office. During the conference a number of subjects on health were discussed by a number of physicians, pharmacists, and technicians attending the conference.
Mr. Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, Vice President hoped in his opening speech that discussions would help promote health sectors in the country. He highlighted the government’s efforts to assist health sector along with the education sector which he described as the basis for change and development. He further called for outlining a specific plan for health insurance in cooperation with general and state institutions.
Discussion in the conference centered on health situation in Yemen, private hospitals, Drug industry, treatment abroad, smuggled drugs, health insurance, environment health, administration corruption in the health sector, mothers, children and youths’ health, epidemic diseases, etc.
Dr. Khaled Jaghman, Chairman of Physicians Syndicate stressed the importance of improving doctors’ living standards. He said that the syndicate members should have the priority in posts and that the syndicate had formed a team to discuss that matter. He also called for avoiding selfishness among doctors.
Dr. Fadhl Hirab, pharmacist, presented a research paper on Drug Fund supported by the WB which is suggested as an alternative to the medical supply. This means that there will no more be free drugs for patients, he said. He said that the state spent about YRs 700 million on the Ministry of Health and billions on hospitals. He added that drugs distributed to hospitals were of suspected quality and origin. The paper also included a number of recommendations:
1- Health insurance
2- The states should provide drugs for incurable diseases.
Fifty doctors from Aden participated in the conference among whom was Dr. Jubain who wished that health condition would improve. He also hoped that foreign donations were properly exploited.
Dr. Fatima Shafeeq Aman, director of Al-Wahdah Hospital in Aden described the conference as excellent in case its recommendations were translated into actions. She also called for providing medicine for the poor and the needy, improving physicians’ condition, distinguishing the Yemeni cadre and organization of nursing courses.
Dr. Abdul Majeed Al-Kholaidy, Chairman of the Syndicate and the conference called for studying the problems carefully to come out with sound health plans. Planning must be based on facts, he said. He added that the Yemeni cadre should be given the chance to do studies and make researches to outline a realistic health policy. He also talked about health insurance and the problem that might face it as a result of the Yemeni Rial drop against foreign currencies. Evaluation of services, improving performance, improving condition of health cadre and equality between Yemenis and foreign physicians are the most important objectives of the conference, he concluded.
Dr. Mansour Abdullah, works in the drug stores hoped to:
1- Right the wrong condition of health sector
2- Benefit from the participants’ experience
3- Improving hospitals laboratories.
Dr. Adel Hamed Ja’afar, Chairman of the syndicate, Aden highlighted Yemeni patients’ travel abroad for treatment while they can receive the same kind of treatment here. He stressed the importance of organizing courses for doctors and laboratory technicians to acquaint them with what is new in the their fields of specializations.

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