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Training on health-promoting schools initiative
A WHO mission to assist in training master trainers on the health-promoting school initiative took place from 6 to 10 April 2013. The workshop trained participants from all areas in Oman on how to analyse and determine interventions for common problems in schools and on how to monitor and assess a Health Promoting School. Given the high enrolment...
WHO subregional training workshop on laboratory quality management
WHO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, held a subregional training workshop on quality of laboratories. Laboratory services are involved in different phases of alert and response systems, including detection, investigation and response and are one of the eight core capacities required for implementation of the International Health...
Workshop on food poisoning
A WHO mission visited Oman from 6 to 7 May 2013 to support the Food Poisoning Workshop organized by the College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University. This workshop aimed to raise awareness of the different aspects of food poisoning, update participants about new emerging pathogens and their identification techniques and...
Review of the birth spacing programme
A WHO mission to review the birth spacing programme in Oman took place from 5 to 9 May 2013. The mission noted that the programme has made significant contribution to the reduction of maternal and child morbidity and mortality as well as improvement in quality and social well-being of Omani citizens over the past 20 years. The assessment used the...
Review of the specialized nursing curriculum
A WHO mission to review the specialized nursing curriculum took place from 9 to 13 June 2013. The planned mission reviewed the current specialized nursing curricula in Ministry of Health educational institutes in terms of content, validity, sustainability and adaptability to future developments. Recommendations focused on adapting existing...
Development of a national harm reduction policy, 26–30 January 2013
Over the past few years, Oman has taken several steps to strengthen the drug dependence treatment services within the Ministry of Health. A WHO mission took place from 26 to 30 January 2013 to support the national team in the development of a harm reduction policy. While in Oman, the team reviewed the draft substance abuse harm reduction protocol and...
