The Health Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries participated in the high-level global ministerial conference on antimicrobial resistance in its third edition, which was held in the Omani capital, Muscat. Ministers and deputies of health and participation of the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, the United Nations Environmental Health Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and other organizations and competent authorities.
The role of the Gulf Health Council in this conference lies through the Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control in setting antimicrobial resistance among the priorities that it works on through specialized committees, including the Antimicrobial Resistance Committee in developing the necessary plans that are in line with the organization’s programs, which had a role in Improving the environment and maintaining the ability of antibiotics.
The conference seeks to achieve several goals, including: enhancing the importance of political commitment to the “One Health” approach in addressing the epidemic of antimicrobial resistance, highlighting the role of the environment in its spread and the importance of monitoring and monitoring, and its use in the three areas (human, animal and environment), and the exchange of expertise and successful experiences. And finding opportunities for cooperation and partnership between countries and international organizations to address them in the context of the sustainable development goals.
It is mentioned that the issue of antibiotic resistance receives great interest at the international and Gulf levels in particular, hence the importance of the conference to benefit from global experiences, as well as to develop countries’ perception of solutions and submit them to international organizations and the United Nations, and to move from setting policies to movement and governance framed by indicators for follow-up at the local and regional levels And global.
