UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention Organizes Workshop on Hypertension
UAE, 23 January, 2017 - Under the patronage of Dr. Hussein Abdel-Rahman Al Rand, Assistant Undersecretary of the Health Centers and Clinics Field, the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention arranged a workshop on high blood pressure titled 'Hypertension: From Guideline to Practice.' Apart from Dr. Al Rand, Dr. Buthaina Abdullah bin Belaila, head of the Non-Communicable Diseases Department; a visiting professional from the UK Dr. Mehdi Mabrouk Jibany, Expert in Household and Kidney Diseases; Prof. Hassan Al-Tamimi, an Expert Cardiologist from the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medication and Health Sciences; and a number of medical professionals and nurses from primary healthcare facilities were also present.
The session included a presentation on the root causes of hypertension and treatment techniques based on global standards and the hypertension guide released by the Ministry in early 2016. It also reviewed the major risk factors of coronary vascular conditions (CVD) and how you can prevent them. A number of study of different types of high blood pressure existed and talked about by professionals.
Dr. Al Rand claimed: "Our goal is to work out ways to stop the onset of hypertension in addition to guide members of the community in diagnosing the illness and the associated threat variables through very early screening. This persistent disease is a significant health concern and poses an economic threat to culture due to its association with other conditions such as CVD, stroke, kidney failing, disability, and premature death, which is why high blood pressure is also called the 'silent killer.'".
The Assistant Undersecretary highlighted that the workshop drops in line with the Ministry's National Approach to Fight Non-Communicable Conditions (2017 - 2021). He stated that the method drops within the framework of advertising healthy and balanced lifestyles among individuals of the UAE to lower the threat of affiliated diseases by applying a health care system based upon the highest international requirements, enhancing UAE Vision 2021.
Explaining better, Dr. Al Rand stated that the Ministry has developed a special procedure to monitor high blood pressure disease each its objective laid out together with its partners in the UAE. He stated that the Ministry has actually been assessing the medical care facilities in all private key healthcare facilities to much better manage high blood pressure degrees and affiliated conditions.
Dr. Al Rand pointed to the launch of a smartphone application called 'e Itminan' by the Ministry for the prevention of non-communicable illness, consisting of high blood pressure and CVD. This, he claimed, is a quality addition to residential healthcare services which will certainly help supply far better health medical aid to the citizens and residents of the UAE based on the most effective worldwide practices.
Dr. Buthaina bin Belaila discussed the launch of the high blood pressure overview at the beginning of 2016 and numerous workshops that were performed in key medical care facilities to introduce the standard and the process applied. She stated that today's workshop is a follow-up of that launch and assesses the role of medical staff in the diagnosis of hypertension as well as making use of updated approaches for treating and directing people and participants of the community for enhanced avoidance. She further claimed that the Ministry will release clinics dedicated to non-communicable diseases to evaluate hypertension patients.
Dr. Bin Belaila further discussed that high blood pressure is the primary reason for at least 45 per cent of global fatalities as a result of CVD and 51 percent from stroke. Locally, deaths because of heart disease consist of 30 per cent of the mortality rate for non-communicable diseases, 5 per cent which are associateded with high blood pressure, according to 2015 statistics.
