15 bag Dh2.8m medical awards
dubai — Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, and Chairman of the Dubai Health Authority, honoured 15 winners of the Hamdan Medical Award on Wednesday evening.
The awards, with a total value of Dh2.8 million, include three categories: International awards, Arab World Awards, and UAE awards. Gastroenterology was the focus of this ninth term of the awards.
The UAE awards
Shaikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, won the award for outstanding clinical department in the public sector for Cardiac Sciences Institute. It has performed surgical procedures on 2,800 pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease. Adult cardiac surgery has been carried out on 2,211 patients, while additionally, 1,429 heart rhythm devices have been implanted by the electrophysiology service.
Three UAE personalities were honoured for their contribution in the field of medicine and health:
Dr Hussein Abbas Mahboobi is the first practising dentist in the GCC region. His first clinic in Bur Dubai was the first modern dental clinic in Dubai. He started the first dental lab in Dubai in 1952, through which he was able to produce the first dental crowns and bridges in the region.
The late Dr Tayseer Ibrahim Barakat started his career as a General Manager at the UAE Ministry of Health (MOH) in 1975. He then became a consultant and conducted a detailed assessment of health services in the UAE, putting together the first five-year plan for health services which tackled issues such as establishing new hospitals and medical centres, restructuring MOH administratively and technically.
Dr Shawqi Mir Hashem Khouri is the first UAE specialist in internal medicine with sub-specialisation in endoscopy. He obtained his PhD in gastroenterology from Germany in 1988. While working for Rashid Hospital in Dubai, Dr Khouri launched the first independent centre for endoscopy across the region. He established the first electronic record system for patient registration in order to store important data such as details about the patient’s condition with visual data. This initiative was the foundation on which Dubai Health Authority depended to build a registry of all patients’ data, using the modern ‘Electronic Medical Record-DHA EMR’ system.
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