The management of a large company requires all employees at different levels to conduct annual medical examinations. The human resources department of this company reserves the right for each employee to have a specific appointment at a specific clinic and gives the employee a leave of absence on that date to complete the medical examination. And the employee should not go to the examination only, and the company before and after the follow-up the rest of things!
This company is not in Sweden or in Finland, but in Dubai, and has been implementing it for many years. It understands the meaning of prevention better than cure, and understands the relationship and strong link between the health and safety of the employee and the level of production and giving, and also recognizes that the return of this step, Cost, is never compared to the loss of a productive employee because of an illness that has not been treated early!
In Dubai, also in the government department, the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, there is a positive step since 2015, and with the personal conviction of the Director General, Major General Mohammed Al Marri, to circulate mandatory annual medical examination, and linking this to the premium and promotion for each employee, And certainly such a step in the interest of the employee, and it is necessary, and even if some complained of it, the continuation of something is necessary, and must be called for the dissemination of these experiences to everyone.
But not necessarily enough, and what is required is a general federal decree that obliges all citizens, employees or non-employees, in the private or public sector, students, or housewives, according to their age, all without exception, It is true that there is enough awareness of the importance of this step and will go thankful and able to examine, and there are those who will not be convinced, and this type can be obliged by renewing passports or ID cards, or through employers , Which can be linked to the date of exchange of tickets in the courts And the timing of the exchange of «bonuses» in banks and private sector companies, or otherwise, there is certainly more than one way, but you have to start this step and not to postpone more than that!
There is a financial cost, yes right, and the Ministry of Health and health bodies bear this, and the organization of medical examinations, and facilitate it smoothly for citizens, because the financial cost resulting from such a decision is not equivalent to 1% of the funds spent by the State to cure diseases and intractable malignant, Of the citizens' bodies late, and they must realize that every dirham spent on examination is practically worth more than 100 thousand dirhams spent on the treatment of late cases after the aggravation of the disease!
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