Jump to full article: The Peninsula (qa), 2008-10-08
Intro: the National Health Authority (NHA) is working on a draft containing recommendations for amending the law.
NHA is also recruiting more inspectors who will be given judicial powers to check violations of the provisions in the existing law.
The recommendations are being prepared by the Non-Communicable Diseases Section at NHA in cooperation with its legal department.
"We have been working on the draft but it is too early to talk about specific recommendations. The idea is to make the law compatible with international standards and the WHO guidelines," . . .
Currently, there are only six full-time inspectors and more than a dozen volunteers. NHA needs some 300 inspectors to cover the whole country.
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