Private health facilities demanded to provide them with the number of "influenza" vaccines

Dubai Health establishes a committee to review deaths in hospitals

Dubai Health has sent a circular to its affiliated facilities regarding the formation of the "Mortality and Complications" committee.

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The Dubai Health Authority announced the formation of a "mortality and complications" committee in health facilities licensed by the authority, stressing the importance of this decision in setting up a system based on effectiveness and efficiency in auditing and reviewing deaths in the health sector.

In a circular sent to all health facilities in Dubai, the authority confirmed that the decision achieves the required rates for the quality of health care, patient expectations and customer satisfaction, with the aim of reaching best practices in the field.

She pointed out that the mechanism for checking deaths includes the participation of the health sector in them, by taking the necessary steps towards forming a committee for "deaths and complications" within all hospitals licensed by the authority.

The tasks of the committee include reviewing and investigating cases of death, complications occurring in hospitals, identifying factors or causes of contributing to death, and the possibility of avoiding or preventing them in the future. It also provides the authority with an investigation report within 10 working days from the date of the occurrence of death, and provides the health sector with any data or requirements Additional that may be requested from time to time regarding deaths and complications, in addition to sending a complete copy of the medical file, including the audit report and investigation prepared by the committee, through one of the means represented by a “copy of a CD and handing it over to the Medical Complaints Office in the Health Organization Sector, or Send the file to the designated e-mail.

In another context, the authority called on private health facilities to provide them with the required data about the number of seasonal influenza vaccines that are given in the private health facility weekly, as well as to adhere to providing them with the statistics on the specified date, on Thursday of every week, until further notice.

In a circular issued to the private health sector, she stressed the importance of adhering to this procedure to achieve the purposes of monitoring and investigation, and to obtain reliable data to strengthen the necessary preventive measures to limit the spread of infectious and chronic diseases, especially in light of the current exceptional situation of the spread of the Corona pandemic (Covid-19).

A global center for dermatology and cosmetology at Rashid Hospital

The Dubai Health Authority is moving to create a global center for dermatology and cosmetology at Rashid Hospital, to enhance Dubai's position in this important specialty, and to support the requirements of medical tourism, with direct support and integrated care from Emirates Islamic Bank, which announced that it will also support a comprehensive development project for the Department of Respiratory Medicine And the pulmonary respiratory laboratory in the hospital, according to two memoranda of understanding signed by the authority at its headquarters yesterday, and the Emirates Islamic Bank, in the presence of the Director General of the Authority, Hamid Muhammad Al Qatami, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank, Hisham Qasim.

Al-Qutami said that the authority possesses a package of strategic projects and initiatives, aimed at implementing it to strengthen the integrated health care system that it provides, in order to achieve people's satisfaction and happiness, and to achieve the global competitiveness of the Emirate of Dubai in this vital field, and he stressed that everything the authority is based on, whether from expansion work Or creation or development, based on its strong infrastructure, modern technologies and smart solutions, in addition to its reliance on the best international standards in force, and he pointed out that the authority seeks to have a high-level center in dermatology and cosmetology, to meet the growing demand for this specialization, and to support To the requirements of medical tourism.

• The tasks of the committee include reviewing deaths and the possibility of avoiding or preventing them in the future.

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