The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has affirmed its keenness to carry on its efforts to develop the health services system, and to benefit from regional and global experiences, especially with regard to determining the future needs of the workforce in the health field.
This SCH made the statements on the sidelines of the official visit of a Bahraini health delegation to the Sultanate of Oman, in the presence of the Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dr. Tasnim Ghalib Atatra, to review the Omani experience in the field of identifying the needs for human resources in the health sector.
The delegation met Dr Jean Yaacoub Jabbour, WHO Representative to Oman, and Dr. Fatima Al-Ajmi, Undersecretary of the Omani Ministry of Health for Administrative, Financial and Planning Affairs.
The SCH indicated that the delegation’s visit is within the comprehensive programme to develop the kingdom’s system of health services, particularly regarding the Health Insurance System and the Autonomy Programme of health institutions.
It asserted that work is underway to carry out a comprehensive study to determine the future needs of the workforce in the health field, noting that WHO expertise has been used to benefit from the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method in determining and estimating the number of manpower required for all health institutions.
The SCH indicated that the training of a team of doctors and nurses had begun in March 2023 in six primary healthcare centres, adding that this visit was organised as part of the training plan with the aim of collecting first-hand information about the Omani experience, and achieving benefit from applying the WISN system to the health sector.
WHO representative to Bahrain said that the visit, organised in cooperation between WHO offices in the two countries, aims to transfer expertise, build capacities, study the challenges and discuss the main priorities that the WISN system must address.
It also aims to determine the absorptive capacity of healthcare providers by identifying the necessary indicators and estimating the available working time, including defining the requirements of the health personnel at the level of primary care centres, she said.
Source: Bahrain News Agency