KUWAIT CITY: Jasem Albudaiwi, secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, has said that safeguarding the health of Gulf children is “a strategic priority for shaping the region’s future.”

Albudaiwi was speaking at the opening of the first Gulf Conference on Pediatrics in Kuwait on Saturday. He also said that Gulf health action “extends beyond awareness to the comprehensive GCC Health Strategy to strengthen regional health security,” the General Secretariat said in a statement.

Kuwaiti Minister of Health Ahmed Al-Awadhi and a number of specialists, doctors, and researchers from the GCC were in attendance at the conference.