MoHAP Undersecretary tours Preventive Medicine Center, Dibba Al Hisn Health Care Centre and Dadna Health Centre

Published Sunday, 31 January 2021

The Ministry of Health and Prevention’s Under-Secretary and Head of Board of Directors of the Emirates Health Services Corporation His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Salim Al Olama, accompanied by His Excellency Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Director-General of the Emirates Health Services Corporation, recently visited the Preventive Medicine Center, Dibba Al Hisn Health Care Centre and Dadna Health Centre.

This comes as part of the inspection tours to the ministry’s health facilities to ensure the provision of comprehensive and integrated healthcare services, enhance health quality and safety according to the latest international standards, and check on the level of health services at MoHAP’s network of hospitals and health centers.

Expedition of expansion plans

During their tour at the Preventive Medicine Center in Dibba Al Hisn, Al Olama and Al Serkal were briefed on the procedures for medical fitness examination for residency, where they directed the officials to expedite the implementation of the Center’s maintenance and expansion plans and scale up the services provided, while adhering to the adopted precautionary and preventive measures.

Al Olama and Al Serkal, in their second stop at Dadna Health Centre, learned about the efforts exerted by the medical teams and first line of defense in terms of regulating the procedures for providing the Covid-19 test and vaccine in accordance with the highest international practices, as well as receiving and registering visitors, while adopting the strictest precautionary measures.

Operational readiness

The tour also included a visit to Dibba Al Hisn Health Care Centre, where they were briefed on the availability of medical equipment and supplies, the sufficiency of drug stockpile, and the efforts of the medical teams in providing the necessary care for patients.

The two officials also inspected the quarantine rooms and were briefed on the procedures for registering patients, sorting cases and contacts, as well as the mechanisms for conducting rapid test and providing the vaccine to community members, lauding the outstanding efforts of the medical and administrative teams in providing the appropriate healthcare and maintain the health and safety of society to get through Covid-19.

Development of health facilities

Al Olama underlined the importance of regularly conducting the necessary tests for medical teams, pointing out that the ministry’s strategy aimed at developing its medical facilities is ongoing as per the international standards and specs, in order to complete the entire health indicators of the National Agenda, as well as to keep pace with top healthcare institutions.

He made it clear that the Coivd-19 pandemic hasn't impeded the ministry’s efforts to apply the best medical and therapeutic protocols, clinical quality standards, governance, and innovation, in order to enhance the gains of the health sector and to reinforce the UAE’s health facilities competitiveness.

Concluding his remarks, Al Olama, stressed the UAE’s capability in overcoming the Covid-19, thanks to efficiency and robustness of its health system, lauding the dedication and sacrifice of the medical staff in the first line of defense and their prominent role in protecting the health of community members.

He stressed that the ministry spares no effort to follow up on the needs of all medical districts in order to offer them all necessary support. This comes in line with our strategy aimed at providing world-class, comprehensive and integrated healthcare services and ensuring that every individual in the UAE can obtain distinct health care services across medical specialties.

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