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The Center was established as a strategic partnership between Ooredoo company and Qatar Cancer Society to paly a part in achieving the society vision.
The Center was founded in 8th February 2017, and is the first of its kind in the Middle East. It is an outstanding contribution from the Qatar Cancer Society to the National Cancer Strategy and to the development of healthy citizens both physically and psychologically as a prerequisite for human development, which is a pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030.

OCAC PROGRAMS


 “Your Health is Your Success” ” &  Our Passion in Our Health”

Program Objectives

  • Raising the overall awareness of all community sectors about cancer
  • Dispelling fears and misconceptions about cancer
  • Empowering a healthy life style culture in the community

“Your Smile is Our Life” Program

Program Objectives

  • Enhance the quality of life for patients, survivors and family members while they navigate the complexities of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship to help them gain their role back and become re-involved in the community
  • Helping the patients being healthy after treatment
  • Provide accurate, up to date cancer information to patients, survivors, family members, and caregivers and connecting them with the available services and resources in the State of Qatar

Program Objectives

  • Provide databases for researchers, health care professionals, and health policy makers to make informed, data-driven decisions towards overall improvement in the health and the quality of life
  • Empower the community members with confirmed information to assist them in adapting healthy life styles in their daily life activities and raise their awareness and commitment to their health
  • Specify the cancer awareness research topics based on community needs

Program Objectives

  • Developing the skills and building the capacities of healthcare professionals including physicians, researchers, radiologists, pathologists, nurses, and technicians involved in the healthcare aspects of cancer including prevention, early detection, rapid and definitive diagnosis, treatment, ongoing care, and scientific research

Program Objectives

  • Building the capacity of the health education and communication workers including the health educators, employees in media, human resources, public relation, and marketing, in strategic planning and implementation of the health education programs and activities, and the evaluation and development of those programs as well
  • Developing their communication skills to deliver the knowledge using a variety of effective channels and methods

Program Objectives

  • Qualify the volunteers with an expertise and ability to respond and participate in raising the community awareness toward healthy lifestyle, and cancer and the methods of prevention and early detection of it
  • Train the volunteers to prepare educational materials, lectures, workshops, and public campaigns
  • Develop the volunteers’ skills through training them in the different departments of Qatar Cancer Society (i.e. : Media, Design, … etc.)

Program Objectives

  • Provide the health studies university students including the students in medicine college, pharmacy college, public health college and nutrition college, the opportunity to conduct guided practical work and to do needs assessments, planning, implementation, evaluation and development of the health education programs and activities

OCAC Facilities