Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah has signed today (Wednesday) a community partnership agreement with Bank AlJazira to train and qualify the health NGOs staff. This comes in support of the professional volunteer initiative, the initiative that aims to provide a model for scholarships in the Kingdom in accordance with the best international experiences in the field of professional volunteering, through employing professional capabilities and competencies working in the private sector and retirees, in order to contribute to support, develop and build the capabilities of the health NGOs (22 associations), by means of providing their services as specialized volunteering counselors.
It is noteworthy that the community partnership program is one of MOH's new initiatives, which aim at engaging all components of society to contribute to health development, and opening new horizons of relationship between MOH and society for boosting the citizens' health.