Ministry Of Health and Prevention - UAE

About Ministry Of Health and Prevention - UAE

Since the early days of the Federation in 1971, The Ministry of Health (MOH) 's principle is to provide accessible and quality comprehensive health services. Primary Health Care was a fundamental starting point for a compatible preventive and curative community-based service in the country. Accordingly, the MOH has developed national strategies that incorporated the political and socio-economic status and which emphasized on international and regional collaboration with respected agencies and academic institutions. The main theme of this strategy is evident through the provision of comprehensive care, increasing life expectancy, the continuing efforts to eradicate communicable and parasitic diseases, early detection and treatment of chronic diseases. In addition to that the MOH has developed special programs targeting mothers, children, students, teens, old aged people, handicapped and technicians. A central information system was developed to ensure proper planning, follow up and evaluation of programs and activities from one hand, and empower human resources from the other hand. Medical services has improved dramatically during the past 30 years where the number of hospitals increased from 7 to 30, the number of beds increased from 700 to 4473 and the number of primary health care centers increased from 12 to 115. Manpower development plays a major role and is well integrated in the MOH strategies through a number of in-service training programs. More than that, the MOH is reorienting its systems to accommodate for nationals graduating from relevant universities and other educational institutions.