Doha 23 November 2016 The official opening of Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Communicable Disease Center (CDC) last week marked the start of the largest expansion phase in HMC’s history. The addition of this latest facility to HMC’s portfolio brings the total number of hospitals to nine at present, with three more hospitals set to open...

Doha, November 17, 2016 QNA Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Qatar inaugurated Thursday the Communicable Diseases Center at Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City. He was briefed on the various services provided by the Center. Prime Minster was accompanied with Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari, Minister of Public...

Doha: 8 November, 2016 Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar (HMC) in collaboration with Ministry of Public Health and Primary Health Care Corporation will host a series of events during the month of November in recognition of World Diabetes Day, screening thousands of residents across the country and raising awareness around how to better manage and prevent...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 6 (APP): Pakistan’s candidate for the Director General World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Sania Nishtar presented her vision and plan for the Organization at a forum hosted by the Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London. Sania Nishtar is contending for the slot of Director General WHO with other candidates...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 6 (APP): Nearly 108,000 people die each year in Pakistan from tobacco related diseases, affecting 1200 youth and children daily. According to WHO report on tobacco consumption in Pakistan, mostly people die from diseases like heart disease, stroke and emphysema while smoking causes cancer while non smokers become victim of cardiovascular disease because...

Doha, Qatar, 3 November 2016: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has announced Professor Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer, as the second keynote speaker for the 2016 Summit. Dame Sally will join renowned economist Lawrence H Summers, the Charles W Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, as a keynote...

Doha, Qatar, 2 November 2016: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) and Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Department of Geriatrics collaborated recently on a community engagement event to raise awareness about dementia. The event, held at Qatar Foundation Headquarters in Education City on 26th October, was designed to evaluate the increasing effects and growing challenges...

Doha, 26 October, 2016 Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced the launch of the biggest recruitment drive in the organization’s history to meet the need for specialized clinical and non-clinical staff to work in the new hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are due to open in 2016/17 in Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City. HMC currently...

Doha, October 17 Dr. Rajitha Senrathne, Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine of Sri Lanka has met Ali Shareef Al Emadi, Minister of Finance, Qatar and Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari, Minister of Public Health of Qatar during his visit. Senrathine told that Sri Lanka is very much interested in having close bilateral trade...

Doha, October 15 (QNA) Ministry of Public Heath (MOPH) has affirmed that the vaccine used against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles), also known as (MMR) is safe, effective and gives long-term protection, as it has been approved and used worldwide for more than 40 years. The MOPH's statement urged citizens and residents to not...