On a wheelchair, the citizen, Hussein Qaid, ascended to the podium of the tenth session of the Hamdan Medical Award yesterday, amid applause from the audience, in recognition of his person and his great health efforts as the first Emirati nurse.
The award was received by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, patron of the Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences for his long history in the field of medicine and his dedication to his work for almost 60 years.
Many doctors and health leaders in Dubai know a leader. He used to patrol the streets of the emirate in the 1960s to provide vaccinations to children to protect them from dangerous diseases, which senior officials in the emirate intended when they were young, to heal their wounds.
"I started my health career in 1952, when I was 16 years old when an Indian doctor arrived in Dubai and needed an assistant," he said. I work with him permanently in a small clinic in Dubai, which was a wooden room belonging to Al Maktoum Hospital. " "Over time, I learned the origins of the nursing profession, became the first national nurse, took responsibility for vaccinating children, and healing wounds." "I used to vaccinate children in their homes in the 1960s," he said. "These children are big and responsible," he said, expressing his pride that he "contributed to immunizing Dubai's population from dangerous diseases."
"I remember that access to Jebel Ali was difficult, because the road was not paved, and we learned that the residents of that area were infected with a deadly disease and prepared, and requires urgent medical intervention."
"I went there to inject patients with medicine, and I had to stay for more than a week in a desert area where there was no service, until the disease was eradicated, which saved the lives of dozens of citizens."
The nurse tells us that many people came to him from far away to inject them with vaccines. With the opening of public health facilities in the emirate, he was transferred to administrative work, to stop nursing where he spent more than 15 hours a day.
Hamdan Medical Director, Abdullah Bin Suqat, said that the citizen, Hussein Qaid, received the Hamdan Award for Outstanding Medical Personnel, being "the first national nurse in the history of the UAE and a model to follow."
"The commander of all his efforts to serve the community and the sick, as a nurse and administrator in Dubai hospitals, until he retired in 2010, so deserved the award and honorably deserved."