MOH prepares 10th five-year health development plan – Times of Oman

MOH prepares 10th five-year health development plan – Times of Oman

Muscat: Despite the current circumstances of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) continues preparing the tenth five-year health development plan (2021 - 2025).

Dr. Ahmed Al-Qasmi, MOH Director General of Planning & Studies pointed out that the concrete steps of preparing the plan have been begun in the middle of last year through forming a central committee to prepare and follow up the tenth five-year plan under the chairmanship of H.E. Dr Ali bin Taleb Al-Hinai, MOH Undersecretary for Planning Affairs and membership of a number of director-generals from the Ministry and the health governorates.

The committee has developed and adopted the methodology and philosophy guide of the tenth five-year plan and adopted the training guide of the methodology.

Al-Qasmi stressed that the plan is based on a set of pillars, first of these pillars is Oman Vision 2040, which is the first operational plan of health priorities in this Vision. Oman Vision 2040 determined five strategic goals for health priorities, for which both government and private health sector seek to achieve them.

The plan is also based on the Health Vision 2040, the global and regional agreements, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN. Furthermore, the Director-General of Planning