The minister added, “This success highlights the partnership and collaboration among the various sectors of the state to achieve a high quality of life and to improve health, well-being and sustainable development. The vision that we are working to achieve through the comprehensive urban plan of Qatar is to create an ideal model for a sustainable urban life that has all the standards and specifications that qualify it to be healthy, livable cities, through achieving the strategic objectives of the Ministry of Municipality in maintaining cities with green facilities suitable for human living and environmentally friendly.”
Dr Hassan Rashid Al Derham, President of Qatar University, said: “Qatar University’s award as ‘Healthy University’ demonstrates the great interest the university attaches to promoting health and well-being, and through its distinctive cooperation with various sectors of the country. This also supports the university’s efforts to provide more promotion and development programmes for the improvement of the health of the university community, in addition to initiatives targeting the Qatari community in general.”
WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari said, “It is a pleasure to join Qatar in celebrating the award of its remaining six municipalities as ‘Healthy Cities’, following Doha and Al Rayyan municipalities earlier this year. This achievement puts Qatar at the forefront of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, where EMRO grants all its municipalities the status of a ‘Healthy City’.”
Healthy Cities is a global initiative launched by WHO with the aim of placing health at the top of the social and political agenda of cities by promoting health, equity, and sustainable development through innovation and multi-sectoral change.
