NEW YORK: Health Minister Dr Ahmad Al-Awadhi affirmed Kuwait’s keenness to improve health system and enhance global cooperation in the medical field, ensuring the delivery of quality health services. This came in a press release following a high-level meeting on Thursday on antimicrobial resistance between Dr Awadhi and Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the sidelines of the high-level week of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The meeting focused on discussing ways to enhance international cooperation towards the delivery of the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP). The meeting also discussed the humanitarian health challenges some countries of the Eastern Mediterranean are facing as well as the current humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

The minister of health reaffirmed that Kuwait developed a national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance based on a strong multi-sectoral approach based on the “One Health” principle. Also, Kuwait succeeded in enhancing its participation in the World Health Organization’s Global Surveillance System for Antibiotic Resistance and Use (GLAS), he added. — KUNA