The Ministry of Health (MOH) organized today (Tuesday) a training workshop on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) child health program under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Sultan bin Ya'rub Al-Busaidi, MOH Advisor for Health Affairs at the Higher Institute of Health specialties.

The two-day workshop aims to qualifying the medical cadres in the health institutions in the Sultanate in order to follow-up and enhance implementing the IMCI for the children under five-years old.Around 100 pediatrics, nurses and health educators along with a number of private health institutions are participating in this training workshop. The first day of the training workshop highlighted several issues related to the IMCI including the early childhood care development, the childhood nutrition, and the latest developments of immunization…etc.