CATHERINE W GICHUKI
DOHA
A keynote speaker at the just concluded 4th International Primary Health Care Conference has praised Qatar’s healthcare system.
Dr Marc A Bruijnzeels, an associate professor at Leiden University Medical School–Campus the Hague and the director of Jan van Es Institute, a small expertise centre for integrated primary healthcare in The Netherlands, said that Qatar’s healthcare system "has really developed over the last 10 years”.
Speaking on the sidelines of the conference, Dr Bruijnzeels said, "Qatar is doing a really good job. If you look a decade back, you see Qatar’s primary healthcare booming today. With the right professional attitude and skills that they are trying to put in, it’s absolutely brilliant.”
During the opening ceremony, Dr Bruijnzeels, who is an expert in transitioning from volume- to value-based integrated care, delivered a presentation on ‘Turning vision into reality through innovation, integration and leadership.’ He also gave a presentation on ‘Empowering primary care to innovate and accelerate new models of integrated care.’
According to him, primary healthcare has to develop further into a population oriented integrated system.
He added that Qatar and the Netherlands can learn a lot from each other.
According to him, doctors should collaborate between the various domains in specialists care, mental healthcare and primary healthcare in line with shared guidelines and visions.
Dr Bruijnzeels said that such collaboration to overcome the barriers between the primary healthcare and specialist care; primary care and mental care and primary care and social care is possible only if doctors, who receive the same education and share professional culture, come together.
She said the Netherlands has developed a ‘Rainbow Model’ to show that if you want to integrate you need to integrate at all levels.
DOHA
A keynote speaker at the just concluded 4th International Primary Health Care Conference has praised Qatar’s healthcare system.
Dr Marc A Bruijnzeels, an associate professor at Leiden University Medical School–Campus the Hague and the director of Jan van Es Institute, a small expertise centre for integrated primary healthcare in The Netherlands, said that Qatar’s healthcare system "has really developed over the last 10 years”.
Speaking on the sidelines of the conference, Dr Bruijnzeels said, "Qatar is doing a really good job. If you look a decade back, you see Qatar’s primary healthcare booming today. With the right professional attitude and skills that they are trying to put in, it’s absolutely brilliant.”
During the opening ceremony, Dr Bruijnzeels, who is an expert in transitioning from volume- to value-based integrated care, delivered a presentation on ‘Turning vision into reality through innovation, integration and leadership.’ He also gave a presentation on ‘Empowering primary care to innovate and accelerate new models of integrated care.’
According to him, primary healthcare has to develop further into a population oriented integrated system.
He added that Qatar and the Netherlands can learn a lot from each other.
According to him, doctors should collaborate between the various domains in specialists care, mental healthcare and primary healthcare in line with shared guidelines and visions.
Dr Bruijnzeels said that such collaboration to overcome the barriers between the primary healthcare and specialist care; primary care and mental care and primary care and social care is possible only if doctors, who receive the same education and share professional culture, come together.
She said the Netherlands has developed a ‘Rainbow Model’ to show that if you want to integrate you need to integrate at all levels.