Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Kabul (BNA) National Interim Medical Council of Afghanistan (NIMCA) has officially been opened during a ceremony attended by the related officials, a statement from the ministry of public health said Tuesday.
A ceremony participated by the ministers of public health, higher education, justice and labor and social affairs and representatives from the health departments of the ministries of defense, interior, National Directorate for Security (NDS), national and international entities partners with the Afghan health sector, was held here in Kabul officially opened the NIMCA, according to the statement.
Representatives from the said ministries and entities and those of the private health sector have been said in the statement to be working as the members of the council, with the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Firozuddin Firoz noting the main aims of the council is to provide standard health services for the people, securing trust between patients and the doctors, beefing up the work capacity and service of the health service providers, beefing up the work validity of the Afghan physicians at the regional level and standardizing the private medical services institutes in the country.
“The council is now working temporary for one year, and then would continue working permanently,” said the public health minister who added the plan to successfully establish the council was the outcome of the related officials’ joint cooperation.
Minister of higher education, Dr. Farid Mohmand, justice minister, Dr. Abdul Basir Anwar and minister of labor and social affairs, Dr. Nasreen Oryakhil spoke on the occasion calling the establishment of the council, a step forward towards raising the doctors’ educational and professional level, improvement of health inside the country to remove the country’s people needs for going abroad for treatment.
Oryakhil hoped the council could do its best to provide enough cooperation in standardization of the health sector as well as offer good medical behavior and safety for the patients.
