Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday unveiled the plaque of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Academic Medical Centre at Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC).
The centre, the education and research arm of DHCC, provides and encourages the launch of medical and health-care education programmes in accordance with the highest international standards.
Shaikh Mohammad, accompanied by Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, visited the emergency medicine centre, where he viewed the procedure for receiving patients via ambulances until they are admitted to the intensive care unit. He visited the control room used for monitoring patients electronically.
Shaikh Mohammad listened to presentations from physicians about how they receive emergency cases and how they deal with such cases, and then he headed to the second floor, which hosts the ICU for premature babies and familiarised himself with the modern and hi-tech medical equipment and electronic devices available at the paediatric ICU, and how physicians are being trained to use and deal with highly sophisticated equipment.
Visiting the Obstetrics Section, Shaikh Mohammad viewed the advanced medical devices and was briefed on mechanisms for training doctors on how to use these when dealing with labour cases and the procedure for monitoring labour operations through the e-control room.
Shaikh Mohammad also visited the centre’s library, which contains his books and publications that are on offer for visitors, trainees and staff. He then stopped at a classroom where dentists listen to medical lectures. He met some trainees and wished them success in their studies.
Shaikh Mohammad then visited other classrooms where he met some trainees from the UAE and other Arab countries, and listened to a part of the lecture. He then inspected the training hall where he saw a number of paramedic trainees being trained on how to provide first aid.
He then visited the Al Maktoum Electronic Medical Library and viewed some collections and the contents of its archive, which is considered the first and largest of its kind in the Middle East.
Shaikh Mohammad concluded his visit by viewing the works of the Omani artist, Madani Al Bakri, signing one of the paintings as a gesture of recognition of the artist’s symbolic contribution which illustrates the importance of art and the role it plays in human lives.
hH also thanked officials at the centre for their efforts, praising the opportunities given by Dubai Healthcare City to both national and expatriate students.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by Abdul Rahman Mohammad Al Owais, Minister of Health, Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Chief of Dubai Police, Eisa Mohammad Al Maidour, Director General of the Dubai Health Authority, and other officials from Dubai Healthcare City.
