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Health campaign focuses on prostate cancer The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) recently launched its prostate cancer awareness campaign to highlight the importance of early detection in significantly enhancing chances of survival. The campaign, which will continue till the end of the year, will run across several government and private organisations. It aims to educate the community about the risk factors and the need for regular screening through the distribution of educational material.
Focus on medical tourism Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, recently called for stronger public-private partnership to fast-track the emirate’s new health tourism initiative. Sheikh Hamdan said the initiative, presented to him by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), would establish the city as a regional and global hub for health tourism, and also create several new investment and job opportunities.
Sharjah to build its own healthcare city His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, issued an Emiri decree setting up Sharjah Healthcare City as a medical free zone authority. The new entity will be responsible for promoting the emirate as an international healthcare centre and will have the mandate to set up healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical companies and institutions, physiotherapy and massage centres, healthcare consultancy services, hospitals, and other healthcare related companies.
RAK hospital opens daycare centre Patients in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) who do not need overnight admissions may now use the first and only dedicated daycare centre in the northern emirates at RAK Hospital. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Saud Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah, inaugurated the 12-bed capacity daycare centre, equipped with ultra-modern facilities and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Spread across 3000sq feet, the daycare centre offers consultation with specialists, preventive health checkups and lifestyle counselling. It can also accommodate various types of surgeries.
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JOHNS HOPKINS AND SEHA TO COLLABORATE ON ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETY IN THE REGION
PATIENT SAFETY AT hospitals across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the key component of a two-year agreement between Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI), on behalf of Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality in Baltimore, Md., USA, and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA). “We value our collaboration
with SEHA and are privileged to be charged with the important task of assisting SEHA in this vital area,” says Thompson. “Patient safety is truly a global issue. We have developed a comprehensive quality improvement programme at The Johns Hopkins Hospital to make our hospital a safer, more effective and more satisfying place for our patients, and we are honored to have the opportunity to share this expertise with our colleagues in the UAE.”
A team of experts, led by Peter
Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president for patient safety and quality and director of the Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute, will train local doctors and other healthcare providers to help eliminate bloodstream infections associated with intravenous lines, to enhance patient safety culture and to assist with the development of a virtual learning community. According to the terms of the agreement, Johns Hopkins will also assist with the expansion of SEHA programmes aimed at eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), surgical site infections (SSI), venous thromboembolism (VTE) and other hospital-acquired infections. Pronovost is internationally
known for the development of a five-step checklist that, coupled with a program of culture- change in ICU’s, can dramatically
reduce the number of central line-associated bloodstream infections. This programme - now in place across the US, Puerto Rico, Spain and the UK - is believed to have saved thousands of lives and millions of healthcare dollars. Pronovost serves in an advisory capacity to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety. “When patients entrust us
with their healthcare, they have a right to expect quality care delivered in a safe and effective manner,” says H.E. Saif Bader Al Qubaisi, managing director and chairman of SEHA. “Our vision is to be recognized as a world- class health care provider, and that requires us to continually improve our standards. Accordingly, we welcome the expertise of Johns Hopkins for the benefits of all our customers and communities served.”
MAFRAQ HOSPITAL PIONEERS SURGERY FOR URINARY TRACT CANCER
SURGEONS FROM MAFRAQ Hospital, owned and operated by the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company PJSC (SEHA), have performed reconstructive surgery on a male patient suffering from advanced cancer of the urinary bladder by recreating his bladder. As well as saving the patient’s life, this pioneering surgery will allow the 48-year old Pakistani man to lead a normal life. The patient came to Mafraq Hospital with a cancerous tumour in his bladder. The tumour took up 60% of his bladder. The team, led by Dr Mohsen El Mekresh, Consultant and Chief of Urology and Chair of Surgery, performed a radical cystectomy and removed the bladder, prostrate, seminal vesicles, lower ureters and draining pelvic lymph nodes and then conducted surgery to reconstruct a new bladder.
Dr El Mekresh said: “The patient came to us suffering from severe pain and blood clots in his urine. Our tests showed that a large tumour occupied 60% of his bladder. Further tests showed the cancer had not spread into
Dr El Mekresh
other parts of his body. Usually, following a radical cystectomy, the urine will have to find another way to get out of the body and would be stored in a pouch or bag outside of the body which can be manually emptied. We created a new bladder for the patient using 40cm of his small intestine anastomosed in one side to the ureters and distally to the urethra. This means the patient can urinate normally and does not need a urostomy bag.” “Mafraq Hospital has also set
up the only Uro Cancer Centre in Abu Dhabi”, added Dr El Mekresh. “As well as helping patients we have operated on, we want to improve the awareness in the region about uro cancers and prostate cancer. Early screening reduces the severity of prostate cancer and should be a vital part of people’s health tests.”
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