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A team of health experts working out key specifications of the federal anti-tobacco law will also calculate minor details such as the safe distance between a smoking room and other occupied rooms in the building, said a senior ministry of health official. A National Tobacco Control team is currently being formed to overlook the detailing of [...] Dubai The Ministry of Health and the Residency and Foreigners Affairs Department in Dubai launched yesterday a new service in which the medical health certificate for residency purpose can be electronically sent from the clinic to the residency department. The new project links Dubai Preventive Medicine Department and the residency department electronically. According to Dr Hanif Hassan, [...] A committee for the development of organ transplantation in the Kingdom was formed on Wedneday by the Health Ministry under the direction of the minister, Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah. Announcing the formation of the new committee, Deputy Health Minister, Yacoub Al Mazrou, secretary general of the Medical Services Council told Arab News that the new body [...] “Kuwait is swine flu free,” said a senior Ministry of Health (MoH) official on Tuesday, revealing that the data for January indicated that no new cases of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus had been detected. MoH Undersecretary Dr. Ibrahim Al-Abdulhadi stressed that the ministry is committed to continuing its preventive plan to guard against any reappearance [...] Doctors have urged the Health ministry to take serious steps to improve their living conditions in the country. They demanded a salary raise that covers their living expenses and annual income levels at par with other parts of the world. Recent press reports quoted ministry officials as saying that the salaries of Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti [...] Over 2,350 posts are lying vacant at the Ministry of Health facilities in all seven emirates, Minister of State for Financial Affairs Obaid Humaid Al Tayer has said. Addressing the Federal National Council FNC session here on Wednesday, he said sufficient budget for these posts had already been allocated, and “we are working to bring in [...] The Ministry of Education has said that it will not make swine flu vaccinations compulsory for primary school pupils despite the low turnout during the first week of the campaign. “There are no moves at the ministry to make it compulsory, neither are there at the Ministry of Health,” said the Education Ministry’s head of School [...] The Kingdom witnessed a drop in confirmed swine flu cases over the past week, with no new fatalities reported, a Ministry of Health report indicated on Wednesday. The ministry’s weekly H1N1 update, issued yesterday, showed that 29 swine flu cases were registered between November 25 and December 2, down from 87 the previous week. The weekly total [...] |
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