"Ministry of Health" The state’s health authorities are looking at the standards of the medical committee to assess cancer cases
Dubai, August 6 / WAM / The Ministry of Health and Community Protection organized a workshop to introduce Ministerial Resolution No. 25 of 2025 regarding the standards of the establishment of a multidisciplinary team to assess cancer cases in the country, which aims to consolidate the best global practices and standards in planning treatment and care for cancer patients and a basic pillar of the work of health facilities that provide health care in this field.
The workshop in Dubai was attended by officials from the ministry and governmental and private health authorities, as well as a group of specialists, experts and health professionals in the field of cancer diseases.
The ministerial decision aims to upgrade the quality of cancer patients through the establishment of a multidisciplinary medical committee in hospitals that provide the Cancer Care Service to evaluate cases, determine the treatment plans and paths, make efforts to develop the efficiency of services provided to patients, increase the rate of healing and average age in addition to reducing the time period of diagnosis to treatment and enhancing the level of health care for patients according to the finest international practices approved and providing patients and their families. To information and support for their psychological state through distinguished treatment and care.
The decision seeks to improve and organize the work environment for health professionals by simplifying the paths of treatment and reducing the duality of services and continuous professional development for health services providers for cancer patients and contributing to reducing medical errors and coordinating care and supporting the provision of best treatments for cancer according to international best practices.
The ministerial decision specified the responsibilities of the team multidisciplinary to assess cancer cases in the country and include the provision of comprehensive care centered around the patient and focuses on his physical, emotional, psychological and social needs since the diagnosis For the patient throughout his treatment, evaluation of response to treatment and adjusting treatment plans as needed.
The team is concerned with developing an individual treatment plan designed for each patient based on the type and stage of cancer accurately and the recommendation of the most appropriate treatment based on the best international scientific evidence and the failure to expose the patient diagnosed with cancer or those who have a suspicion of any surgery or treatment of cancer of all kinds without a written treatment plan and attached to the patient’s file from the medical committee that was evaluated.
His Excellency Dr. Hussein Al -Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for the Public Health Sector in the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, stressed that the UAE is one of the developed countries in providing health services for cancer patients and continues its pioneering efforts to reduce early deaths resulting from cancer through the implementation of the national plan to prevent and combat cancer, which falls within the national health indicators aimed at reducing the death rate of this disease by 30 percent by 2030 in line with the goals of the World Health Organization plan To combat cancer.
He added that this decision comes within the framework of the procedures, policies and initiatives launched by the ministry to improve the quality of the lives of cancer patients and provide the necessary support during the period of injury and beyond in cooperation with all concerned authorities to improve the performance and efficiency of the health system in the country.
For her part, Dr. Buthaina Bin Balila, head of the Department of Non -Survey Diseases and Mental Health in the Ministry, explained that the identification workshop is an executive step to enhance professional awareness of the decision and the mechanism of its application, as the care of cancer patients in the Emirates is considered an essential part of the strategy of fighting cancer, so the decisions taken by the multidisciplinary medical team contribute to reducing medical errors and improving the quality of comprehensive care and working to reduce the death rate in the country.
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