Dear colleagues,


"In our continuum efforts to improve our healthcare delivery to people in Qatar on line with the booming economy in the country, we realized that people in Qatar deserve to get the best and high standards of healthcare"

 Mr. Turki Al-Khater, The Managing Director of HMC, started the journey with JCI  http://www.jointcommission.org/AboutUs/
and he added "….. adopting JCI standards , is going to help us achieve our vision which is to be world class health care provider".
" We want to make sure that the quality of care we provide is according to standards, so it's a measurement and we need a third party to measure us and to evaluate us , and what better than JCI to do that?" with these words Dr.Latifa Al-Houti Chairperson- HMC, Board of Directors - ends the JCI journey.

CONGRATULATIONS "mobarak alaikom" to Qatar, to our patients, and to every hand assisted to reach this level of standards.

The Bridge also has good news. The Bridge is fortunate to introduce new members to it's editorial board. Let me introduce them alphabetically;

* Dr. Ebrahim Mohammadi, PharmD. Sr.Pharmacist. Ras Laffan Clinic.
* Dr. Issam El Din Abd El-Bagi, Consultant Family Medicine
   and Trainer. Primary Health Care
   Department. Doha, Qatar.
* Diaa Sawaftah, BSc (Pharm), MBA, Manager, Community
   Pharmacist. Doha, Qatar,
* Dr.Mayyada Al- Wazaify, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
   Practice, Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy,
   Faculty of Pharmacy- University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

I would like to thank every member in this great team for joining The Bridge.

We look forward for health care pioneer's kind feedback and participation.

I hope you enjoy reading this new issue.