KUWAIT: Dr Abdullah Al-Ajeel from the Kuwait Ministry of Health received the Professional Excellence Award for the year 2020 in the field of health at the level of Arab countries. The award is part of the fifth session of the Global Awards of Arab Best Foundation for the year 2020, held recently in Marrakesh, Morocco. The Secretary-General of the Best Arab Award, Abdullah AbdulKareem, said in a statement, Sunday that the winners were selected among a group of Arab competencies that lead major institutions from all over the Arab world.

The award's supreme committee and its branch in various Arab countries are concerned with the process of nominating individuals and institutions in accordance with the internal controls approved for these committees, he said. In selecting the winners, he indicated that the expert committees use modern evaluation methods to measure the rates of ability, compliance, and administrative excellence, levels of popularity and attractiveness of services, performance, and productivity.

Meanwhile, the representative of the Higher Committee for the Best Arab Award, Mohammad Al-Kandiri, said in a similar statement that the idea of the award came from the basis of the Arab nation's permanent and renewed need for creativity and excellence in all fields.

Dr Abdullah Al-Ajeel is the recipient of several awards at the local, Gulf, regional and international levels, including 6 awards from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait Electronic Prize in the field of electronic sciences, in the field of e-learning, and in the field of electronic inclusion.

He also received the Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Prize twice and the Creativity Medal from the Bahrain Conference for Technology Innovation, the most recent of which was the 2017 Information Summit Award from UNESCO-United Nations. - KUNA