Emirates Health Services Celebrates World Heart Day
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 28, 2021 | 08:00 PM
ABU DHABI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 28th Sep, 2021) Dr. Yousef Mohammed Al Serkal, Director-General, Emirates Health Services (EHS), said that the EHS is keen to launch concrete projects and initiatives to provide sustainable solutions to cardiovascular disease, explaining that these initiatives aim to improve rates of early screening and rapid diagnosis and provide outstanding curative and therapeutic services, in accordance with international best practices and evidence-based research.
Al Serkal made the statement on the occasion of World Heart Day, observed on 29th September, stressing that the EHS is ramping up its efforts to develop health services related to cardiovascular diseases, by enhancing innovation in early detection and awareness-raising programmes, as well as providing advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services.
The EHS Director-General highlighted the UAE's support for the WHO's Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs, underlining the EHS's commitment to improving health services for patients with cardiovascular disease, providing an integrated and sustainable research environment, and encouraging innovation among physicians and technical cadres.
He shed light on the significant milestones of Al Qassimi Hospital, one of the UAE's eminent medical edifices, in performing complex surgeries, most importantly robotic cardiac surgery, thanks to the availability of distinguished national medical cadres, smart infrastructure, and high-end medical equipment.
The hospital also bagged several prestigious accreditations, including the JCI accreditation as a centre of excellence in the treatment of atrioventricular block, the JCI accreditation as a centre of excellence in the treatment of heart attack, in addition to being MENA's first centre applying the DynamX Coronary Bioadaptor System.
Al Qassimi Women's and Children's Hospital has also achieved a 100-percent success rate in pediatric open-heart surgeries.
Al Serkal highlighted the EHS's leadership in launching initiatives that contribute to reducing the number of patients with cardiovascular disease. This includes the early detection programme for Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Program (CCHD) for newborns, the 'Heart Experts' programme, which aims to prepare students to become awareness ambassadors in their schools, and the 'Safe Hearts' programme, which targets students in the Primary stages and provides early detection services for cardiac-related risk factors.
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