Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Health issued a decision to adopt a new organizational structure for the ministry, consisting of 14 directorates, including 8 specialized technical directorates and 6 supportive technical directorates and administrative supportive directorates. The initial tasks of the directorates were defined within a task document that takes into account the Ministry’s internal system.
In a statement to SANA, the director of administrative development at the ministry, Dr. Aida Habib, explained that the new structure raised the level of the executive directorates in the ministry and reduced the administrative procedures, as the number of directorates was reduced from 27 to 14 directorates in a way that supports the technical and service aspects of the ministry's work.
Dr. Habib indicated that the reason for the reduction is the integration and similarity of tasks between the directorates that were merged in order to prevent duplication of work, noting that a recommendation was made to create the National Laboratories Authority and the Rehabilitation Center and Prosthetics Authority.
Dr. Habib pointed out that no new directorates were created, but new organizational units were created at the level of departments such as the Quality and Measurement Department in the Directorate of Communication and Executive Support and the Department of Coordination with Integrated Sectors in the Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation.
Dr. Habib pointed out that the new organizational structure reduced the number of minister's assistants to two and transferred the ministry's media office to the Information and Public Relations Department, which is affiliated with the Communications and Executive Support Directorate.
The Administrative Reform Conference, which was held last month under the slogan Effective Management towards Dynamic Institutions, recommended issuing job structures for ministries, including numerical staffing, defining qualitative jobs, canceling and updating old job names, forming work teams to prepare a model guide for the internal system and job structures, and reviewing job categories to match the labor market.
Rama Rashidi
