Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI), the international arm of Hopkins medicine, has recently signed a five-year agreement with the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health to consult in four of their major hospitals.
The goal of the collaboration is to increase the standard of health care delivery in Kuwaiti hospitals by working with hospital managers, local doctors, administrators and nurses.
"Basically the agreement is to upgrade the functioning of the hospital for the public hospitals as well as to work with them to improve the quality of the clinical services they provide," Steve Thompson, CEO of JHI, said.
Beginning in early 2012, JHI will work with Kuwaiti hospitals in Amiri, Farwaniya, Jahra and Adan to address medical issues and share knowledge in the fields of trauma, orthopedics, rehabilitation, diabetes and obstetrics, pediatrics and telemedicine.
Sophomore Alisha Jamil is excited about this recent development.
"I strongly feel that everyone deserves access to healthcare and it's great that Hopkins is working on international health, reaching out to people who don't have the access to the quality of healthcare that that they deserve or need," she said.
"Hopkins has been active in the gulf for a number of years, and they approached us about doing something like this two years ago. There have been discussions since then that led to this agreement," Thompson said.
Thompson says that Johns Hopkins Medicine International will continue to expand its global health projects into other parts of the Middle East and the world.
