Harvest 2024…the health sector consolidates its gains…and"Insurance" Covers 100% of workers

– From the reports section

Abu Dhabi, December 23 / WAM / During the year 2024, the medical sector in the UAE witnessed a large group of gains and achievements as part of efforts to improve the sector’s performance in a way that enhances the quality of life of community members and supports healthy lifestyles.
The UAE has allocated an amount of 5.745 billion dirhams, or 8% of the Union’s general budget for the fiscal year 2025, for health services and community protection.

In a qualitative step, the Council of Ministers adopted a decision to introduce a health insurance system for workers registered with private sector institutions and ancillary service workers in the Emirates that do not have health insurance systems, and to oblige employers in private sector institutions and establishments and employers of ancillary service workers in the relevant Emirates. By paying the value of health insurance for workers registered with them, starting from January 1, 2025.
In a related context, the Council of Ministers adopted the National Policy for Women’s Health, to ensure that they enjoy the highest level of preventive, curative and rehabilitative health care services.
For its part, the Emirates Genome Council announced the inclusion of genetic testing to become an essential part of the pre-marital examination program for all citizens about to get married nationwide, starting from January 2025.

The genetic test within pre-marital examinations covers 570 genes for more than 840 genetic disorders, and is a preventive measure that protects community members from hereditary diseases.
– Ambitious projects
The health sector in the UAE witnessed the announcement of a group of ambitious medical projects, including the approval of the establishment of a specialized and integrated medical city for women’s and children’s medicine, which will include Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, the new Corniche Hospital specializing in the health of women and newborns, a rehabilitation hospital, and a specialized center. In the mental health of women and children.
Within the framework of its second phase, Dubai Healthcare City witnessed the laying of the foundation stone for the “Asan – Emirates Hospital for the Treatment of Digestive Diseases”, which is a project of the Emirati company Scope Investments, to be the first international branch of Asan Hospital, one of the largest hospitals and health care centers in the Republic of Korea.
The Emirates Medical Preparedness and Response Program “Jahiya” was launched by the National Academy of Nursing, in a joint initiative with the National Training Center “Tadareb”, with the aim of developing the skills of national cadres and building the capabilities and readiness of the first line of defense of male and female nurses working in government and private hospitals in the various emirates of the country.

– Strengthening partnerships
At the level of strengthening global partnerships, the Ministry of Health and Community Protection signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the global medical company “AstraZeneca” to enhance early lung cancer detection programs in the country using the latest international technologies and practices.
During the year 2024, the announcement was made of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi’s approval to license the “Healthy Living Institute” as the first center specializing in long-term healthy lifestyle medicine in the world, after it met the licensing standards and requirements set by the regulatory framework developed by the department, in an initiative that is the first of its kind in the world. the world.
The year 2024 witnessed the launch by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection of the National Health and Nutrition Survey Campaign 2024-2025, in cooperation with the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics, health authorities and local statistics centres, to include the target age groups: the elderly, adults over 18 years old, females from 15 to 49 years old, pregnant women, and children from day to day. One up to 17 years.
– Rare operations
During the current year, there were successes in Emirati hospitals in performing the most complex and rare surgical operations, as a team of surgeons within the medical team at “Dubai Hospital”, affiliated with “Dubai Health”, succeeded in performing the eradication of the largest tumor in the adrenal gland in the world for a patient in her sixties. From her age.
For its part, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company “SEHA”, a subsidiary of the “PureHealth” group, succeeded in using radioactive iodine to treat thyroid cancer, affecting a 54-year-old patient who suffers from the last stages of kidney disease.
In August, the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center announced its success in performing the first ovarian freezing operation in the UAE, for a 7-year-old girl, who was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, in cooperation with “ART” Fertility Clinics.
In turn, Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi conducted the first successful liver transplantation for children in the UAE, for a 4-year-old girl. It is the first liver transplantation for children from a living donor in the country, and the operation took 12 hours.

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