MoPH focuses on access to quality education on World Diabetes Day – The Peninsula

MoPH focuses on access to quality education on World Diabetes Day – The Peninsula

Doha: This year’s World Diabetes Day (WDD) campaign of Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) focuses on the need for better access to quality diabetes education for health professionals and people living with diabetes.

The WDD is marked every year on November 14 and aims to promote the importance of coordinated actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue. “Education to Protect Tomorrow” is the theme of World Diabetes Day 2022.

Prof. Abou-Samra, Co-Chair of the National Diabetes Committee and Director of Qatar Metabolic Institute (QMI) highlighted that the new model of diabetes care, as described in Qatar National Diabetes Strategy, 2016-2022, places diabetes educators at the centre of the multidisciplinary team.

Relevant strategic programmes have been focusing on increasing the pool of diabetes educators (capacity) in the system as well as the capability by providing ongoing diabetes education to healthcare professionals to provide the best possible care for people with diabetes. This is done through various national initiative such as the establishment of a diabetes diploma and Master degree in collaboration with the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), the National Diabetes Strategy e-Learning modules through HMC’s E-taleem platform, delivery of the “Integrated Diabetes Care Webinars for Primary Healthcare