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Riyadh - Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud, Minister of Education and Minister of Health, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rabeeah have signed at the Office of Minister of Education in Jeddah, a Memorandum of Understanding on the areas of school health and a document of operational procedures for swine flu epidemic.
The two ministries, according to Saudi Press Agency, aim to promote health, reduce the spread of infectious and non-infectious diseases, promoting life styles and behaviors of health, and vaccine the generation against diseases, based on the principle of cooperation between government agencies.
According to the MoU, the two ministries to exchange experiences and expertise through committees, training and seminars, lectures and conferences in the areas of cooperation identified in the memorandum of understanding, seeking to achieve integration of services provided in health care both at the central or partial levels between all school health units at the Ministry of Education, primary health care centers, at Ministry of Health, as well as to activate and develop the concepts and health messages in the curriculum, to promote the health of new generation.