Ministry of Health and Prevention Launches Awareness Campaign on Seasonal Flu for its Healthcare Professionals
UAE, December 7, 2016 - Health Centers and Clinics Sector at the Ministry of Health and Prevention has actually gone for its Dubai office a recognition campaign on seasonal flu for its health care workers. Public health experts from the Preventive Medicine Department existed during the project establishing, a step that looks for to increase the expertises of all health care workers in handling flu virus infection and associated threats. Part of the campaign is to provide updated knowledge and training sessions associating with innovative modern methods created to avoid the spread of the virus. Flu awareness activities will certainly be kept in different preventive medicine centers at medical areas until December 22, 2016.
Dr. Hussein Abdel-Rahman Al Rand, Assistant Undersecretary of Health Centers and Clinics Field at the Ministry Health & Avoidance, claimed the recognition project aims to safeguard health care employees from seasonal flu according to the nationwide efforts to regulate intense respiratory infectious illness and advertise health of entire community. This advancement is a major action to the Ministry's objective to build a first-rate local health system to shield UAE society from all infectious diseases, control and keep track of these health problems, and regularly improve the competencies of the country's health care professionals particularly when it come to using the latest clinical methods.
Dr. Al Rand assured that the Ministry will remain to hold recognition projects to regulate and stop transmission of infectious illness, as recognizing the nature of a disease, its reasons, signs, and preventive techniques are an essential pillars for stopping its transmission. He additionally pointed out numerous key actions to elevate public recognition of seasonal influenza, including training programs targeting medical care employees along with distribution of brochures, brochures and posters. The training programs will certainly give medical care professionals with needed details about the burden, its signs and symptoms, route of transmission, therapy, reporting and prevention, and the most effective means to provide health education to patients.
Dr. Nada Marzouqi, Director of Preventive Medication Department, clarified that influenza varies from period to period which the seriousness of its effects is challenging to predict. So, the flu injection is most effective when the injection offered very closely matches the distributing infections yearly.
Throughout the launching, a workshop intended to enlighten health care employees was performed. As they go to higher threat of obtaining the infection offered the nature of their work and normal call with people, the participants were additionally given influenza vaccination to shield themselves and their families as well as their patients.
