The Jordanian National Center for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Control (JCDC) discussed updating the national plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) , which is being currently being drafted. During its meeting held with specialists at Ministry of Health, in the presence of a representative from World Health Organization (WHO), the center revisited its plan to review and follow up implementation of its projects and activities over the last five years (2018-2022). According to a JCDC statement issued Wednesday, the center’s head, , Ra’eda Qutob, said the national monitoring systems help to determine the necessary measures for any interventions, pointing to the need to review, update and prioritize activities of the national action programs and their timeframes. Stressing importance of updating the national plan to combat antimicrobial resistance, Qutob highlighted the need to secure additional resources to support its implementation and expand the scope of monitoring data from the health sector to include decision makers in other sectors. This data, she added, should be used in planning activities to address antimicrobial resistance to achieve a comprehensive “One Health” approach, and promote cooperation and coordination between sectors at the national level. The center, within the framework of its work tasks under its governing legislation, is working to prepare a review of all the plan’s axes, verify the current work mechanism to assess activities already held so far to combat antimicrobial resistance, she pointed out. Qutob added that this review also seeks to see impact of these activities on developing evidence-based policies and decisions and evaluate procedures and indicators adopted to achieve strategic objectives within the plan.

Source: Jordan News Agency