Bahrain bags top UN Health award

Manama : The Kingdom of Bahrain has won an outstanding United Nations award yesterday in recognition of its outstanding contribution to achieving sustainable development goals related to non-communicable diseases. Selecting the Ministry of Health to receive the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force Award, the UN also praised the great efforts and successive achievements of the Kingdom to attain the best health standards in disease prevention and the health of citizens and residents.

The award was received yesterday at the United Nations in New York by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr Walid Al-Manea making the Kingdom the first Gulf country to win a United Nations teamwork award. Marking the occasion, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Mutawa expressed his thanks and appreciation to the United Nations Organization saying, “This award is an embodiment of the achievements of the Kingdom in the health field.” Minister of Health, Faeqa bin Saeed Al Saleh said this award comes as a result of the sincere efforts of the non-communicable disease control team in the Ministry of Health and the relevant authorities in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

She said the team played a major role in this achievement through continued support and encouragement from HRH the Prime Minister. “Bahrain had updated the Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (2015-2019) on the basis of the WHO Global Plan of Action to Combat Non communicable Diseases (2013-2020) and the United Nations Declaration, enabling it to achieve many accomplishment for control of non-communicable diseases, which played a major role in obtaining the award,” the minister said.