Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has been accredited by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) as a continuing professional development (CPD) educational organisation for five years, having met all the criteria and requirements applicable at MoPH’s Department of Healthcare Professions – Accreditation Section.
With this accreditation, QRCS’s Training, Research, and Development Center is officially authorised by MoPH to grant CPDs to health care workers in Qatar, in conjunction with the country’s major health and academic institutions, such as Hamad Medical Corporation, Primary Health Care Corporation, Sidra Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medicine – Qatar, and Qatar University’s College of Medicine.
Abdullah Sultan al-Qatan, assistant secretary-general – CEO of Medical Affairs at QRCS, said: “This accreditation ensures that our CPD programmes meet the highest quality standards, further develop the skills and knowledge of health care professionals, and enhance inter-profession co-operation towards a better ultimate outcome for community health”.
“For years now, the QRCS Training, Research, and Development Centre has been providing several specialist capacity-building courses for medical professionals,” added al-Qatan.
Dr Hassan Ali Qassim, chief medical officer of QRCS’s Medical Affairs Division, emphasised the numerous benefits of accreditation.
Dr Ghanem Salman al-Sulaiti, director of QRCS Training, Research, and Development Centre, stated: “This accreditation is one more step towards the vision of QRCS’s Medical Affairs Division: To be a globally leading health service and training provider.”
QRCS’s Training, Research, and Development Centre is an integrated training and qualification facility that offers diverse training and education services. Using state-of-the-art training equipment and techniques, the centre holds many courses internationally accredited by global training organisations, up to the highest quality standards.
It serves a wide range of medical workers in Qatar, including physicians, nurses, first responders, and technicians, as well as disaster preparedness and relief workers both in Qatar and beyond, following the world’s best health and administrative practices.
The centre focuses specifically on government and private-sector employees, construction and infrastructure laborers, and other social groups.
