Abu Dhabi: The Ministerial Council for Services on Sunday called for improving the overall system and procedures for medical examination of expatriate workers in order to ensure errorless results.
Every expatriate worker in UAE should undergo medical checkups to determine that he or she is free from certain contagious diseases.
At a meeting chaired by Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Council, the council agreed that the current procedures should be improved and regulatory methods should be developed to ensure the capability of healthcare establishments, both in public and private sectors, to carry out faultless medical examinations on expatriate workers.
It also stressed a high level of coordination between the government and those establishments, to enable the best use of available resources in the country to determine the medical fitness of any expatriate worker.
The council reviewed reports presented by the Ministry of Health on the existing rules and regulations in this regard and reiterated the need to improve them in order to ensure that every expatriate worker is free from any disease that may threaten public health.
