Minister of Health: Visit of Director-General of World Health Organization strengthens relations between the Ministry and the Organization
The World Health Organization held a meeting with the departments of the Ministry of Health: We are working to mobilize efforts to support the health system in Sudan.
Hanan Balkhi: The organization's office in Sudan supports Sudanese health activities.
World Health Organization Director: Records visit to Children's Hospital and Humanitarian Aid Commission.
Director of International Health: The meeting with the director of the organization focused on the challenges facing the health sector in the country.
Port Sudan:
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, has commended the tremendous efforts made by the Federal Ministry of Health to provide medical services after the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023, stressing that the organization will mobilize its efforts with international partners and donors to support the health system in Sudan.
While the Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Muhammad Ibrahim held a meeting with the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, in the presence of Dr. Hanan Hassan Balkhi, Director-General of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMRO), and the Director of the WHO office in Sudan, Dr. Shibli Sahbani and the Director of International Health of the Ministry, Dr. Alaa Al-Tayeb Muddassir at the office of the Federal Minister of Health in quarantine in Port Sudan.
World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom with the Directors-General of the Federal Ministry of Health in the Ministry Hall.
Federal Minister of Health Dr. Haitham Muhammad Ibrahim said during the joint meeting that the visit of the World Health Organization Director to Sudan has implications for strengthening the broader relations between Sudan and the organization, thanking the World Health Organization Director-General for his support to Sudan and standing by it in its current ordeal.
Dr. Haitham appreciated the organization's efforts in providing technical and material support, praising the active medical personnel and their determination to provide medical care despite the circumstances the country is suffering from.
For his part, the Director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom said that the organization will mobilize efforts to support Sudan and provide more support to the health sector, indicating that Sudan needs more support from its partners.
In the same context, the Director of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Dr. Hanan Hassan Balkhi, praised the role of the Federal Ministry of Health in providing medical services in light of the circumstances of war and natural disasters that Sudan is experiencing. disasters, noting that the World Health Organization office for the Eastern Mediterranean region is working to provide support to the health sector.
Dr. Alaa Al-Tayeb Mudassir, Director of the General Department of International Health, presented the current health situation as well as the achievements and challenges facing the health sector in providing medical services in light of the ongoing war, noting that the challenges facing the ministry, and adding that the flexibility of the health system has contributed to the finalization of many health files. However, the challenges facing the health sector are great.
In another context, the Commissioner of the Humanitarian Aid Commission, Salwa Adam Benya, met with the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom and his accompanying delegation, in the presence of the Federal Minister of Health and several department directors.
In a different context, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Dr. Hanan Hassan Balkhi, Director-General of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMRO), and the Director of the WHO Office in Sudan, Dr. Shibli Sahbani, accompanied by the Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Muhammad Ibrahim, visited the Port Sudan Children's Hospital and was received by the Acting Governor of Red Sea State, Lt. Gen. Mustafa Muhammad Nour, and the Director General of the Health Sector of Red Sea State, Dr. Ahlam Abdul Rasoul, Director of the Children's Hospital, and the visit aims to know the condition of the children.
