GCC health official arrives in Yemen

SANA'A, Oct. 23 (Saba) - Head of the GCC
Executive Council of the Health Office Tawfiq Bin Ahmed Bin Khouja arrived in Yemen
in Friday
for the meeting of the Fund to Free the Arabian Peninsula of Malaria.
The two-day
meeting, 24-25 October, will focus on several topics related to activating the
functions
of the fund and implementing plans designed for completely eradicating the diseases
by 2015. The meeting will review the general framework of the strategic plan drawn
up
by the ministry of Public Health and Population in Yemen to handle current changes
and set out a future plan and a mechanism for implementation phases and performance
indicators,
he said. The meeting will, furthermore, deal with the shares of the founders of the
fund in an attempt to know about the sums already transferred into the executive
office
as well as other financial topics. FR