[ecr] In a speech at the opening of the 58th Council of Arab Health Ministers, hosted by Algeria under the slogan “Strengthening health security to improve population health and preparing for the next pandemics,” Saihi, president of the current session, stressed the necessity of creating several Arab organizations and bodies to improve the health of the region’s populations.
In this regard, he underlined Algeria’s proposal to create of Arab Agency for health development and an Arab centre of cooperation and research on HIV, as well as Egypt’s proposal on the creation of an Arab agency of medicines and of an Arab centre for general health.
For Saihi, the creation of an Arab agency for the development of health is likely to encourage “researches in health, as well as the exchange of experiences between the Arab and other countries in addition to the coordination of the joint Arab efforts to deal with the pandemics.”
In this regard, he emphasized Algeria’s role, president of the Arab League Council at the level of the summit and president of the Council of the Arab health Ministers in its 58th session, in “implementing the principle of cooperation between the Arab countries in health and of promotion of joint Arab action, in light of the meeting of the executive office of the first session. [/ecr]