Executive Board of the Health Ministers' Council of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States will hold at Qasr Al Riyadh Hotel here on Sunday a regional workshop for the management of health and epidemiological information and epidemics surveillance system and early warning ( Arabic Rasedoun) . Dr. Tawfiq Bin Ahmed Khojah, director General of Executive Board of the Health Ministers' Council G.C.C. States said that the two-day workshop will be held in cooperation between SGH and the Regional Office of WHO for the Eastern Mediterranean in order to develop a mechanism and plan for the application of the epidemiological surveillance system in the GCC. The program (Rasedoun) provides GCC health care officials with multi-dimensional electronic system which is a database of health information for the collection of all relevant various diseases of the personal data of each case. It is the only system to ensure accurate and timely recording of data to be submitted to the concerned bodies.
