ARCHIVE News

News

Select Country:

	United Arab Emirates: "UAEU" Organizes a First-Aid Course for Students and Staff
	The "Student Activities Department” in cooperation with the "UAE Red Crescent Authority" organized on February 17 Monday a "First Aid" course for University staff and students, with the aim of training them on the importance of dealing with emergencies, extraordinary injuries and accidents. "Ibrahim Muktar" Head of the "Sports Activities Unit-Male", said that this course is part of the Department's plan to raise the level of health awareness among university staff and students, and to apprise them of the basics and rules of "First Aid", and to protect themselves from exposure to health risks, the course included (20) participants at th
	Details

	United Arab Emirates: Al Rahba Hospital Drastically Cuts Emergency Department Wait Times
	Abu Dhabi: Al Rahba Hospital announced that it’s "Door to Doc" or D2D program, an initiative aimed to improve the hospital's patient flow, has drastically reduced emergency department (ED) wait times from 3 hours to less than 1 hour (peak times) in less than five months of implementation. During the same period, doctors in ED attended to up to 15% more patients daily. Over 90 percent of patients were seen within 1 hour of arrival to the ED and almost 75 percent of the patients were seen within 30 minutes in 2013. Al Rahba Hospital also aims to decrease the 1 hour waiting time further within the next months, ensuring that all emergency
	Details

	United Arab Emirates: GCC Agrees to Closer Disaster Cooperation
	Abu Dhabi: GCC countries have agreed to closer cooperation to deal with any possible disasters in the region.The 2-day Crisis and Emergency Management Conference 2014 concluded with a recommendation to develop modern technology and detailed emergency plans to be shared with others. It also stressed the need for research by studying past disasters and learning lessons to introduce disaster measures. The conference recommended joint training of emergency responders to guarantee best performance in fighting disasters. Andrew Maskery, the head of risk knowledge for the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, said a disaster could have
	Details

	United Arab Emirates: How Cycling Medics Help Speed up Response Time in Dubai
	Dubai: To save precious seconds lost to traffic jams on the roads, the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS) is increasingly relying on medics on bicycles who can reach victims much faster. The service is in operation along with DCAS’ vans, motorbikes and ambulances for patients in Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) and for special events like the Global Village. The DCAS medics on cycles have attended to 232 cases since the service was launched in January 2013.
	Details

	United Arab Emirates: Khalifa-Ordered National Ambulance Service Begins
	Abu Dhabi: Lieutenant General Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, on February 24 Monday afternoon launched the National Ambulance Project to cover all the northern areas through 8 main sites and 22 branches. The move follows the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Sheikh Saif inspected the medical preparations, qualified cadres and well-equipped ambulances at the General Headquarters of Abu Dhabi Police before dispatching them to their designed geographic areas to discharge services to the public in those areas.
	Details

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541

ARCHIVE News

United Arab Emirates: "UAEU" Organizes a First-Aid Course for Students and Staff

United Arab Emirates: Al Rahba Hospital Drastically Cuts Emergency Department Wait Times

United Arab Emirates: GCC Agrees to Closer Disaster Cooperation

United Arab Emirates: How Cycling Medics Help Speed up Response Time in Dubai

United Arab Emirates: Khalifa-Ordered National Ambulance Service Begins

Journal of EMS Medicine

News

Events

Knowledge Corner

Gallery

Keep me updated