The late began his working life in 1952 at Al Maktoum Hospital

Mohammed bin Rashid: The nation will not forget Hussein Qaid

Mohammed bin Rashid mourned Hussein, a leader for his career in the service of the country.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, mourned Hussein Qaid, the first Emirati nurse, who passed away yesterday.

His Highness said, through his official account on Twitter: "Go to God's mercy, today, Hussein Qaid, the first Emirati nurse. One of the first Emiratis in his field.. May God have mercy on him, and grant him peace. His country will not forget him."

Hussain Qaid was born in the Emirate of Dubai, and he is the first Emirati nurse in the history of the Emirates, specifically in Dubai, and he did a lot to serve his countrymen.

He began his working life in 1952, when he was 16 years old, when he joined the Al Maktoum Hospital in Dubai, less than a year after its opening, to contribute to providing medical care to the people of his community, where he received professional training at the hands of specialized doctors, and initially learned to bandage Wounds, and vaccination of children, through his work in the clinic or field visits to families in all parts of the Emirate of Dubai, near and far, to follow up the treatment of patients.

He is considered one of the few who used to work day and night to serve patients tirelessly, and these efforts stemmed from his keenness on the health and safety of patients, which is currently scientifically called the best practices in laying the foundations for the concept of primary health care, which he was doing with his colleagues instinctively.

In 1971, he moved to work at Rashid Hospital as a translator between doctors and patients, and as an assistant to the nursing staff, which became regular, and relies on certificates and specializations. His work focused on caring for patients’ affairs, following up with doctors, and their appointments, and contributed to training many of the country’s people on methods of dealing with patients.

These efforts contributed to the establishment of the Public Relations Department at Rashid Hospital, which was a center for serving customers and patients, a center for government communication, and an information center for the Dubai Health Authority in its infancy, which was called the Department of Health and Medical Services in Dubai.

Then he moved to work in Dubai Hospital when it opened in 1985, and established the Public Relations Department with all its services and activities. And there are many of them in leadership positions in the Health Authority so far.

Qaid was an example to follow. He devoted all his efforts to serving the community, patients, and serving the country. He received the Hamdan Award for Distinguished Medical Personalities in the country’s medical field at its tenth session 2017-2018.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, honored 43 national figures in 2014, awarding them the UAE Pioneers Medal, in addition to immortalizing their names in the memory of the Emirates, through government archives and their own government yearbook.

Hussain Qaid, the first Emirati nurse, was honored.

Hussain Qaid previously spoke about his work duties, saying, "I used to vaccinate children at home in the sixties, and among these children are great and responsible personalities," expressing his pride that he "contributed to immunizing Dubai residents from dangerous diseases."

He continued, "I remember that getting to Jebel Ali was difficult, because the road was unpaved, and we knew that the residents of that area had contracted a fatal and contagious disease, and needed urgent medical intervention."

He added, "I moved there to inject patients with medicine, and I had to stay for more than a week in a desert area where there are no services, until the disease was eradicated, which contributed to saving the lives of dozens of citizens."

He added that many people used to come to him from distant emirates to inject them with vaccination needles.

With the opening of government health facilities in the emirate, he was transferred to administrative work, to stop nursing, in which he used to spend more than 15 hours a day.

At the time, the Executive Director of the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Abdullah bin Sougat, said that the citizen Hussein Qaid had won the Hamdan Award for Distinguished Medical Personalities, for being "the first citizen nurse in the history of the Emirates, and he is a role model."

He added that Qaid devoted all his efforts to serving the community and patients, as a nurse and administrator in Dubai hospitals, until he retired in 2010, so he deserved the award and honor well-deserved.

• A leader who continued day and night to serve patients tirelessly, and contributed to laying the foundations for the concept of primary health care.


• A leader who received the Hamdan Award for distinguished medical personalities in the medical field in the country in its tenth session.

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