President’s Word
Speech of His Excellency Dr. Zaben Al-Otaibi,
Chairman, Kuwait Alternative Medicine Association
Long time ago , we are seeking to establish Kuwait Alternative Medicine Association, as a professional, meaningful, and balanced project that aims at organizing and innovation of the style and discussion for the techniques of hospitalization with the alternative and complementary medicine (Medicine of the future), to overcome the growing of chronic psycho-body diseases, in order to be an observatory and a source for success of the doctors, practitioners , professional specialists and researchers.
The global survey in 2013 had stressed the importance of what has been recorded that infection of chronic diseases in the State of Kuwait, is the highest in obesity, as its rate was 37.7% muscle, % 27.1, smoking 25.9%, Diabetes Mellitus 14.5%, and Hypertension 13.1%, and that was also confirmed by WHO , and the International Diabetes Mellitus Organization in 2006, that there are 194 million are infected with DM and it is increased to 300 million in 2025 in the world.
The officials of the Ministry of Health in Kuwait have declared that the rate of the infected people in 2015 have reached in the psychiatric cases 30% , then DM 25% for the diseases of cardiology and cancer , and with the evolution of changes and developments in the discovery of deadly chronic diseases, including chronic respiratory diseases, malaria, AIDS, and sickle cell anemia , Corona virus, the H5N1 virus, hepatitis, the need is increased for the medicine of future (alternative and complementary medicine), and as an institutional entity that regulates the profession, and arrange for its development.
From the springboard of our social responsibility, The Alternative Medicine Association of Kuwait has been established , under Ministerial Decree No. 67 / A for the year 2015, as the first professional ,social and specialized Association in the Alternative and Complementary Medicine in GCC countries, where the elite of experts, doctors, consultants, practitioners and researchers met therein and it has adopted a system of corporate values which contribute in protection , community development, and the awareness which is organized by the techniques of hospitalization of the alternative and complementary medicine, and by monitoring scientific developments of individual and institutional professional and scientific practices, and the development of the approved researches and studies of the Medicine of future ( the alternative and complementary medicine), and methods of recovery that rely on holistic theory of human as an integrated one , with one of the latest adopted technologies and practices, in facing the pyscho-body diseases, including chronic and transient ones , thereby contributing in achieving of a preventative ,educational , valuable , institutional and accredited system to build a Kuwaiti human of sound soul and body.
Strategy and restructuring that arise from humanity have been prepared as its focus is integration with the Ministry of Health and State institutions and civil society institutions, and differentiation in the annual treatment each year from the previous one, and to achieve the vision of society that aim at achieving social disease-free environment, that is aware of the importance of psycho-body protection, and experienced for the professional practice and hospitalization techniques of the alternative and complementary medicine, and it is a message that we carry to protect the community, by spreading culture , science and technology of the alternative and complementary and Medicine (Future Medicine), and preparation of national scientific , practical and professional cadres to follow the path of professionalism and to be perfect at the practices and treatment of chronic and transient diseases, and values to start with abiding by the vocational ethics , morals and standards, and to follow the individual, professional and institutional credibility in diagnosing and treatment with the techniques of the complementary and alternative Medicine, and to target leadership in science and technology of hospitalization and practice of the alternative and complementary Medicine, and is keen to integrate with local, regional and international professional organizations, and to become a professional in social responsibility and protection of the growing prevention with awareness, protection and rehabilitation, in addition to special priorities which its baseline is the human being and its depth is time.
And I Ask God to honor us to serve Kuwait and its people.
Dr. Zaben Al-Otaibi
Chairman of Board of Directors