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  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a brainstorming session on Saturday to discuss ways to strengthen collaboration between the Authority’s hospital and primary healthcare sector. The aim of the session was to help device mechanisms and policies that will help further strengthen the continuum of care for patients. HE Humaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) continues its quest of increasing sustainable green spaces within UAE under its flagship campaign ‘For our Emirates We Plant’. With the aim of inculcating an urge to recycle within different sectors of the society, EEG launched a special recycling campaign wherein participants were asked to collect certain quantities of paper and aluminium Cans ...

  Dubai / WAM Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and President of the Dubai Health Authority, the 3rd edition of International Family Medicine Conference and Exhibition (IFM) will begin on Sunday at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition centre, themed “Overcoming Challenges in Primary Health Care”. ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will complete the implementation of Dubai’s Mandatory Health Insurance Scheme ISAHD (Bringing Happiness), by the end of June, 2016. DHA is currently in the third and final phase of implementing the scheme on companies with less than 100 employees, including all spouses, dependents and domestic workers Dr Haidar Al Yousuf, Director of Public ...

  DUBAI / WAM In a far-reaching move to tackle hazardous liquid pollution at its flagship Jebel Ali Port, DP World UAE Region signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Planning and Development – Trakhees, the regulatory arm of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation in Dubai, PCFC, to enforce the International Convention for the Prevention of ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) invited the attention of all owners of commercial, industrial and occupational facilities to the importance of complying with all health and occupational safety standards, warning them not use such facilities as accommodation. The Municipality stressed the importance of removing unlicensed upper decks in commercial outlets and occupational facilities ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Statistics Centre – Abu Dhabi (SCAD) signed a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) for cooperation in the exchange of statistical information, and to lay the foundations for statistical integration, in order to meet the needs of both sides, avoid duplication of work and support sustainable development plans at all ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM A student from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology capitalised on the latest technological advances in computer science and signal processing to innovate one of the UAE’s oldest and cherished pastimes – camel racing. Recognising the novelty and potential commercial applications of the student-led innovation, Masdar Institute has filed a provisional patent with the ...

  London / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) won the Cyber Risk Strategy of the Year award at the Global Risk Management Awards in London. The award was presented by The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) in the UK, a leading global organisation in setting risk management standards and recognising global best practices. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD ...

  London / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), is leading a delegation from DEWA to London to encourage British companies to take part in clean and renewable energy projects in Dubai and the UAE and also to promote the UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia) annual $1 million global award to ...