DUBAI, 17th March, 2019 (WAM) — The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, has stressed that the National Periodic Health Screening and Cancer Screening initiatives titled “Etminan” (Contentment in Arabic) are running…
Category: United Arab Emirates
U.S. and UAE face common healthcare challenges
The U.S. healthcare system and its hospitals are one of the most advanced in the world, despite the current tumultuous changes taking place in the sector. In 2014, 48 per cent of…
Dubai Expats should not ignore mental health
Dubai: An unfortunate fallout of urbanisation and rapid progress is often the deteriorating mental health of people who hold the seams of a city together. According to the World Health Organisation, mental health…
UAE: Paving the way for medical tourism
Dubai: As more and more internationally renowned health experts with intensive experience have begun working in the UAE, hospitals have been able to set up medical precedents. This augurs well for Dubai’s…
Princess Haya Calls For More Sustainable Healthcare Systems In The Middle East
Dubai, 29th January, 2015: Held under the patronage of Chairperson of Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA) HRH Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,…
Health Authority announces clinical services capacity plan
Dubai: By 2020, Dubai will require 3,917 beds in medium- and low-cost hospitals, 7,323 doctors and 8,510 nurses. These are some of the findings of the first in-depth survey conducted by the…
UAE announces Date of cancer awareness ‘Pink Caravan Ride 2015’
SHARJAH, 25th January, 2015 (WAM) — The fifth edition of the Pink Caravan Ride 2015, the annual pan-UAE horse-back trek that helps spread awareness of breast cancer, will be held between March…
UAE MoH reduces prices of 280 types of innovative pharmaceutical products
DUBAI, 24th January, 2015 (WAM) — Dr. Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Health for the public health sector and licensing policy, has announced the fifth initiative of…
Union Coop Sponsors ‘Healthy Children 2021’
Dubai – In a strategic partnership with the newly launched National Program for Government Communication (NPGC), the Union Coop, a leading Consumer Cooperative Society in the UAE, sponsors the program’s first national…
DHA unveils Dubai’s health-care roadmap for 2015
DUBAI, 19th January, 2015 The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, is planning more programmes and projects to develop the health-care sector in the emirate and its health sector roadmap for 2015 is on…
Landmark cardiac surgery done at Dubai hospital
Dubai: In a landmark surgery that took place for the first time in Dubai, Dr Girish Chandra Varma, Head of the Cardiac Surgery Unit of the NMC Specialty Hospital, excised an aneurysm…
Dubai Health Authority initiates ‘Residency Research Program
Dubai – The research section of Dubai Health Authority’s(DHA’s) Medical Education Department has initiated the ‘Residency Research Program,’ said a top health official. Dr Jamila Al Shaikh, Director of Medical Education at…
Emirates Red Crescent helps to implement national polio vaccination campaign
ABU DHABI, 31st December, 2014 — The Volunteer Department at the Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, has participated in the first phase of the national polio vaccination campaign launched throughout the country by…
SKMC to hold twelfth Monthly Public Lecture about Obesity on Tuesday
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), managed by Cleveland Clinic, holds its twelfth monthly public lecture on Obesity under the title of “Walking Away from Obesity: Bariatric Surgery Options and Results” on Tuesday….
International Conference on Trauma Management begins tomorrow in Al-Ain
The Second International Conference on Trauma Management, Critical Care and Prevention will begin tomorrow in Al-Ain. The conference will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge concerning trauma management…