His Excellency the Minister of Health, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, has discussed the ways to enhance health cooperation between the Kingdom and both of Indonesia and Gambia. This came on the sidelines of the Health Ministers’ Meeting at the fourth session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), concluded yesterday in Jakarta. Dr. Al-Rabeeah has met with the Indonesian Minister of Health, Nafisa Mioy and the Gambian Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Omar Sa’i. During the meetings, they exchanged cordial talks and discussed a number of issues related to the enhancement of health cooperation with these two countries, especially in health domain, including the manpower, training the health workers, the visiting physician program, the medical research and studies, among other issues.
Within the same vein, Dr. Al-Rabeeah has expressed his pride and pleasure for the good feelings shown by the participants in the conference, as well as their great appreciation and praise on the colossal efforts exerted by the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, May Allah protect him, to create a proper environment for pilgrimage, and provide means of success for this year’s Hajj season, in terms of being free of infectious and quarantine diseases, as well as maintaining the pilgrims’ health and safety, by the Grace of Almighty Allah.
For his part, the Health Minister of the Republic of Senegal, Papa Omadua Diack, and both Head of the Turkish Delegation and Head of the Iranian Delegation, lauded the health preventive and curative procedures taken for pilgrims by the Kingdom’s Government, represented by the Ministry of Health (MOH). Moreover, they expressed their satisfaction with the health care system in the Kingdom, meanwhile extending their thanks to the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Saudi people for those services.