Dubai Health Authority stated that it is currently working to raise the efficiency of its hospitals and enhance the speed of response to the provision of medical services, and confirmed that it has implemented plans and programs to train medical personnel, by turning courses and training programs into an electronic platform for medical education and training.
Dr. Yunus Kazim, Executive Director of the Dubai Health Care Corporation at the authority, told «Emirates Today»: “Work is being done to raise and enhance the efficiency of government hospitals, and the authority is ready to deal with any urgent developments.” He pointed out that the authority is in a good position to respond to any infections with the Corona virus. The novelty through a new intensive care unit and ward beds that were created inside the hospitals.
Regarding the plans and programs of the medical staff training program, during the next stage, Kazem explained that the accreditation of Dubai’s Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the strategy of medical education and research in Dubai and the proposed programs for its development, strengthened Dubai's competitive capabilities to The international health scene, as the strategy emphasizes the importance of establishing an integrated system to support education and training as an essential and important part of any facility and in all health specialties, and sustainability cannot be achieved in providing high-quality services unless there is continuous education and training for service providers, whether by providing opportunities To obtain specialized degrees by opening the field for postgraduate studies, or specialized training courses, seminars, or on-the-job training.
He continued: «The courses and training programs were transformed into electronic programs, and the electronic platform for medical education and training was launched, and the Medical Research Department implemented a package of measures, the most prominent of which is building a special page on the library’s website on the emerging Corona virus from information sources and electronic services, and support Healthcare practitioners in the country with free access to some library resources, such as those from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the new England Medical Journal (NEJM).
Kazem said that the Medical Research Department issued a bulletin of articles «Covid-19» which is daily articles about the virus, and can be downloaded easily and quickly from mobile devices, tablets and smart phones, and 43 issues have been issued to date.
Bulletin of Practice Guides
The Medical Research Department of the Health Authority in Dubai worked on preparing a brochure of practice guides from various countries of the world, 192 guides were collected including protocols, procedures and recommendations for the coronary virus, and worked with the preparation group for the UAE national practice guide on the virus for publication in a magazine Dubai Medical, and 10 online training sessions on literary reviews, writing using Google Docs, the bibliographies program, how to publish in the Dubai Medical Journal and the Dubai Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology, as well as speeding up the process of publishing Covid-19 scientific papers were also organized. Presented in the Dubai Medical Journal.