The Nursing Department at Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has recently launched the nursing internship program targeting nursing graduates. This program is considered one of the prerequisites for enrollment in the practice licensing exam for nursing profession in the UAE.

On the occasion of the World Heart Day which takes place on September 29, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) launched on Monday an advanced edition of the “Heart Experts” program, through which, the ministry is targeting to provide 20 students from the American University of Sharjah with hands-on-training to be awareness ambassadors and role models for their friends and families to adopt a healthy lifestyle and also to take part in saving lives of those suffering from a sudden heart attack.

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has issued a circular to all health facilities and practitioners, informing them about the precautionary suspension of the registration, importation and distribution of all medicines containing ranitidine.

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) recently unveiled the increasing number of the beneficiaries from the Mobile Healthcare Services to 2730 individuals between 2017 and 2018 compared to the total number of the beneficiaries since the launch of the service in 2016 which reached 5692 individuals.

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has launched the first blockchain-based system to save and share assessment information of health professionals, including doctors, pharmacists and technicians, with local licensing health authorities.

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has launched the updated version of the Hypertension Guideline 2019 to build capacity of healthcare providers and deliver the best preventive and therapeutic services for patients with hypertension.