The Minister of Health, Abdelhak Saihi, stressed today, Wednesday in Algiers, the need to set priorities and develop a roadmap for the national network of the cancer registry at each annual meeting in order to improve the quality of information.
In a speech read on his behalf by the Director of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Ministry, Dr. Djamel Fourar, at the opening of the annual meeting of the National Population Cancer Registry, the Minister called for “encouraging consultation on ways to exchange and share data in order to enhance cancer registry data in a reliable manner across the 58 provinces.”
On the occasion, he stressed the importance of “taking into account the basic conditions for its operation and its sustainability through the training of qualified personnel within the framework of collecting reliable information and the use of the World Health Organization program as well by the International Center for Research on Cancer to participate in a global exchange of data was part of this research.”
