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…
Prince Turki launches health projects
Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz launched a host of health care projects in the presence of Health Minister of Health Mohammed Al-Hayazie at the governorate on Tuesday. The…
Saudi MOH hires experts to combat MERS, Ebola
21st Jan 2015 The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health has hired a team of experts from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help combat the spread of infectious…
Woman dies of bird flu in Egypt, third death this year
CAIRO, Jan 16 – An Egyptian woman has died of H5N1 bird flu in southern Egypt, the third person in the country to die of the illness this year, a health ministry…
Qatar ‘has one of highest birth defect rates’
DOHA: The March of Dimes Foundation, a US organisation concerned with improving infant health by preventing birth defects, premature births and infant mortality, says Qatar is among the 20 countries with the…
Four new hospitals to improve eye care
Abdulilah bin Abbad Al-Tuwariqi, director general of King Khaled Eye Specialty Hospital, pointed out that the hospital has devised strategic plans to develop and modernize its facilities, in order to deal with…
Tough health standards set in Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has introduced tough new regulations for private health facilities including separate change rooms for male and female patients, tighter controls on the charging…
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…
Dubai Healthcare City and Ministry of Health collaborate to improve clinical skills and healthcare delivery
DUBAI, 5th January, 2015 Dubai Healthcare City, the world’s largest healthcare free zone, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the UAE Ministry of Health, MoH, towards boosting clinical skills training…
GCC closes door on chronically ill expats
Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries have decided to only hire expatriates who are medically fit, to reduce pressure on their health services. This follows reports that about 10 percent of 2…
Galfar bags RO214mn contract for ROP hospital
Muscat – Galfar Engineering and Contracting Company has been awarded a major contract of RO213.96mn for the construction of Royal Oman Police’s (ROP) new general hospital at airport heights, the company said…
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…