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Cancer is the 3rd Reason Death in Qatar,Says Sheikh Dr.Mohamed Bin Hamad
Doha, February 07 (QNA) - Director Of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani has warned that cancer comes second in Qatar as far as diseases leading to death.
Addressing a workshop the SCH held here on Monday marking qatar's celebrations of World Cancer Day (WCD) marked on February 4, Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani referred to the increasing cases of Cancer in the region in general in the past few years and in qatar in particular.
He revealed the several factors causing cancer and urged for the necessary intervention and the early scanning of such a fatal disease .
The Director Of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) also raised awareness of cancer and encouraged its prevention, detection, and treatment.
He mentioned that the world countries are now competing for decreasing the percentage of sustaining of such a chronic disease and the related mortalities and encouraging having healthy food, practicing sports and combating smoking as neglecting these aspects is a main factor of early death among many populations.
The campaign is led by the International Union Against Cancer, a global consortium of more than 350 cancer-fighting organizations in over 100 countries.
World Cancer Day targets the public through global communications marketing, and encourages policy makers and UICC member organizations to make cancer a political priority.
Meanwhile Qatar will participate in the first meeting of the GCC committee of Non-Communicable Diseases Control to be held in Manama on Wednesday and runs for three days.
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani who is also a member of the Executive Bureau of the GCC Health Ministers Council who will lead Qatar s delegation to the meeting which he said is the fruit of sustained and continuous efforts exerted over the past two years to unify the efforts of the GCC member states on controlling chronic diseases.
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed said that it is high time for the GCC members to focus on the chronic non-communicable diseases after the success they achieved as far as minimizing the risk of the communicable diseases and the resulting deaths.
Director Of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani pointed out that the chronic diseases are the cause behind more than 60% of the total deaths worldwide noting that the entire world has recently alerted to the health burden caused by these diseases on the people and government budgets.
Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) has tabled the chronic diseases as within the third millennium development goals.
He explained that the Manama meeting will address several topics, including a care guide for patients with chronic diseases at the health centers (specialized clinics), strategic plans to combat non-communicable diseases and the proposed draft GCC plan to combat non-communicable diseases (2011/2020) submitted by the two members of Executive Bureau of the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
He pointed out that the participants will also perform the task of forming the members of the Gulf Committee on non-communicable diseases control (various disciplines), the preparation of the general framework of the GCC plan to combat chronic / non-communicable diseases and the development of mechanisms to coordinate effectively between the various technical committees to control non-communicable diseases in order to avoid duplication and to achieve integration among them.
Dr. Mohammad added that the participants will also determine the extent of the need to hold a workshop for health promotion and orientation of a healthy lifestyle (address non-communicable diseases) and review ways and mechanisms to adopt the initiative to establish a GCC / regional network for chronic non-communicable diseases in cooperation with the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and ways to intensify all scientific, media and diplomatic efforts regarding the unified GCC presence supportive of a resolution by the United Nations on combating non-communicable diseases in September 2011.
For her part, , said Dr. Roqiyya Adnan Saleh , a competence physician at the pediatric unit of society Cancer Prevention Department of Public Health said that the State of Qatar has recorded 5019 cases of cancer during the period from 1999 to 2008,of which 1659 were qataris and 3360 cases non-qataris .
She pointed out that the most common type of cancer in Qatar is a cancer of the breast, where infection rates were recorded by 24 percent compared to other types of injuries and that this type concentrated in the age group between 40 and 60 years.
She added that cancer ranks third for the diseases leading to death in Qatar, where the state recorded 175 deaths from this disease during the year 2008 by 96 men and 79 for women.
Addressing a workshop the SCH held here on Monday marking qatar's celebrations of World Cancer Day (WCD) marked on February 4, Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani referred to the increasing cases of Cancer in the region in general in the past few years and in qatar in particular.
He revealed the several factors causing cancer and urged for the necessary intervention and the early scanning of such a fatal disease .
The Director Of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) also raised awareness of cancer and encouraged its prevention, detection, and treatment.
He mentioned that the world countries are now competing for decreasing the percentage of sustaining of such a chronic disease and the related mortalities and encouraging having healthy food, practicing sports and combating smoking as neglecting these aspects is a main factor of early death among many populations.
The campaign is led by the International Union Against Cancer, a global consortium of more than 350 cancer-fighting organizations in over 100 countries.
World Cancer Day targets the public through global communications marketing, and encourages policy makers and UICC member organizations to make cancer a political priority.
Meanwhile Qatar will participate in the first meeting of the GCC committee of Non-Communicable Diseases Control to be held in Manama on Wednesday and runs for three days.
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani who is also a member of the Executive Bureau of the GCC Health Ministers Council who will lead Qatar s delegation to the meeting which he said is the fruit of sustained and continuous efforts exerted over the past two years to unify the efforts of the GCC member states on controlling chronic diseases.
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed said that it is high time for the GCC members to focus on the chronic non-communicable diseases after the success they achieved as far as minimizing the risk of the communicable diseases and the resulting deaths.
Director Of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani pointed out that the chronic diseases are the cause behind more than 60% of the total deaths worldwide noting that the entire world has recently alerted to the health burden caused by these diseases on the people and government budgets.
Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) has tabled the chronic diseases as within the third millennium development goals.
He explained that the Manama meeting will address several topics, including a care guide for patients with chronic diseases at the health centers (specialized clinics), strategic plans to combat non-communicable diseases and the proposed draft GCC plan to combat non-communicable diseases (2011/2020) submitted by the two members of Executive Bureau of the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
He pointed out that the participants will also perform the task of forming the members of the Gulf Committee on non-communicable diseases control (various disciplines), the preparation of the general framework of the GCC plan to combat chronic / non-communicable diseases and the development of mechanisms to coordinate effectively between the various technical committees to control non-communicable diseases in order to avoid duplication and to achieve integration among them.
Dr. Mohammad added that the participants will also determine the extent of the need to hold a workshop for health promotion and orientation of a healthy lifestyle (address non-communicable diseases) and review ways and mechanisms to adopt the initiative to establish a GCC / regional network for chronic non-communicable diseases in cooperation with the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and ways to intensify all scientific, media and diplomatic efforts regarding the unified GCC presence supportive of a resolution by the United Nations on combating non-communicable diseases in September 2011.
For her part, , said Dr. Roqiyya Adnan Saleh , a competence physician at the pediatric unit of society Cancer Prevention Department of Public Health said that the State of Qatar has recorded 5019 cases of cancer during the period from 1999 to 2008,of which 1659 were qataris and 3360 cases non-qataris .
She pointed out that the most common type of cancer in Qatar is a cancer of the breast, where infection rates were recorded by 24 percent compared to other types of injuries and that this type concentrated in the age group between 40 and 60 years.
She added that cancer ranks third for the diseases leading to death in Qatar, where the state recorded 175 deaths from this disease during the year 2008 by 96 men and 79 for women.
