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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...
Review of measles elimination status, 2–6 March 2013
A WHO mission took place from 2 to 6 March 2013 to validate elimination of measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Oman. The mission held numerous meetings with Ministry of Health experts and paid some site visits including the Oman/Yemen borders in Dhofar Governorate. The mission noted that Oman meets the full criteria set by WHO for...
Meeting on new malaria diagnostic techniques
Recently the WHO Representative for Oman met with a consultant from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a researcher from Sultan Qaboos University to discuss a collaborative project which aims to develop molecular techniques for the diagnosis of low level infection not detected by routine malaria screening. Low level of infection is an issue...
Violence and injury prevention training course, 2–6 March 2013
A 3-day training on the WHO Teach violence and injury prevention (Teach-VIP) course was held from 2 to 4 March 2013. Teach-VIP is a comprehensive injury prevention and control curriculum which provides a broad overview of the fundamentals of injury prevention. This training of master trainers focused on guiding each trainee on how to develop a...
