The growing global pharmaceutical care practice has been playing a crucial role in promoting patient health and ensuring quality and safe pharmaceutical products, a sufficient supply of which are required in the UAE to help maintain the well-being of its citizens and residents. 

​UAE, October 14, 2015 – The nursing profession is considered as one of the most important and strategic careers in the healthcare system. It is based on special experiences and exclusive skills based on the modern principles of general health and behavioral science, in addition to comprehensive care of patients in cooperation with other medical teams.

​The Ministry of Health’s Laboratory and Blood Bank Department recently hosted a visiting team of experts from the World Health Organization that facilitated a special training session for technical and administrative teams assigned at the Ministry’s various laboratories and blood banks. The four-day workshop, which saw the attendance of 30 participants coming from different hospitals and centres, aimed at improving the performance and quality management of local laboratory facilities.

Initiative in response to H.H. Sheikh Mohammed’s declaration of 2015 as ‘Year of Innovation’ ​UAE , 10 October 2015 – The Ministry of Health’s - Health Centers and Clinics Department has launched today (Saturday, October 10, 2015) an interactive training program called ‘Innovation Trip’ to improve the work performance of the department’s employees and instill in them a culture of creativity. Covering a series of educational tours, ‘Innovation Trip’ is under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Hussein Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Centers and Clinics, and is being implemented in cooperation with Lundbeck, a Danish international pharmaceutical company.

​UAE, October 10, 2015 – The Ministry of Health has cancelled the six-month period required for heath entities to conduct credentialing for licenses of doctors and people working in the UAE health sector. Physicians and technicians can now transfer their licenses as soon as their credentials are issued.

UAE, October 8, 2015 - H.E. Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health, has participated in the recently concluded 62nd session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) held in Kuwait from October 5 to 8, 2015 under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah, Kuwait’s Prime Minister.