Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis & Disasters Committee for the Covid-19 Pandemic, in collaboration with the Department of Economic Development (DED) has allocated teams to communicate with private companies in Abu Dhabi to discuss their needs and obligations towards their expatriate employees. The move follows the leadership’s directives regarding the protection of workers and their rights, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Healthcare Professionals Licensing Department at the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has issued 4,200 medical licences in 10 weeks, the same amount of time required previously to issue 1,200 licences, to doctors, nurses, and workers in support services. This comes as part of a series of initiatives and programmes launched by DoH, in ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, and Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), a humanitarian organisation that supports official authorities, launched initiatives to support Lebanon after the Beirut explosion. Etihad organised aid to support residents who had been injured or displaced from their homes in Beirut and gathered donations including medical equipment, clothes, and amenity ...