The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) announced the Visiting Doctors Program for March 2019, which provides consultation, diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients. Under the program, doctors will visit Al Qassimi Hospital, Al Qassimi Women and Child Hospital, Fujairah, Kalba, Kuwait (in Sharjah and Dubai), Obaidullah, Saqr and Masafi hospitals, to provide medical services in their respective fields of expertise. These include Obesity and Laparoscopic Surgery, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Laparoscopy, Endoscopy, Kidney Disease, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Psychiatric Disorders, Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Intensive Care, Orthopedics, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Parkinson's Disease, Pediatric Neurology, Arthroscopy, Open Heart Surgery for Children, Ophthalmology, Endocrinology, Interventional Cardiology.

In collaboration with Monash University, Australia, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) organized a conference on “Health Innovation Accelerators”. The conference was held at the Learning & Development Centre in Sharjah, as part of the UAE Month of Innovation’s events under the slogan “Innovate For Health”.

As per the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has announced the renaming of Al Baraha Hospital, Dubai to Al Kuwait Hospital, in the wake of the ministerial decree No. 16 of 2019. Under this decree, the name of “Al Baraha Hospital” will be replaced with “Al Kuwait Hospital” wherever mentioned in any federal legislation or official correspondence

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) organized the “Innovation in Nursing” Conference to display the latest nursing innovations, enhance the vital role of innovation in nursing care and keep abreast of global trends and evidence-based practices, within the framework of the UAE Innovation Month held at Sharjah Training and Development Center under the slogan "Innovate for Health".

A Belarusian medical consultant team consists of 13 consultants visited Al Qassimi Hospital for Women and Children in Sharjah, during which the team provided several consultations and performed open heart surgeries, in addition to holding educational sessions and workshops for hospital’s doctors and nurses.

Under the auspices of H.E. Dr. Hussein Abdel-Rahman Al Rand, Undersecretary of the Ministry’s Health Assistant Sector, Health Centers and Clinics and in the presence of Dr. Haifa Fares, acting Director of the Primary Healthcare Department and Head of Workgroup, the Ministry of Health and Prevention “MOHAP” organized a graduation ceremony of the first batch of the programme “Boost the Efficiency of General Practitioners in Family Medicine”. The ceremony was held at MOHAP Training and Development Center, Sharjah.