The World Health Organisation has recognised the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia as a healthy city after it met all the global standards required by the organisation to be a healthy city, local media reported.
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22 Views | the publication reaches you by | Saudi Arabia TodayAccording to WHO, “a healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources, which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential.”
The healthy cities programme in the city featured a strategic partnership with Taibah University to record all government requirements and procedures in line with global regulations, evidence and procedures, and record them on an electronic platform for the organisation’s review.
Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Sarani, Taibah University rector and committee chairman in the region, said that the programme was a preventive scheme aimed at improving the environmental, social and economic aspects affecting health.
The coordinator of the WHO healthy cities programme in Medina, Ahmed bin Obaid Hammad, said the organisation’s recommendation for Medina to be a local and international training centre is the biggest achievement of the city’s programme and “we are all proud of it”.
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