UAE to offer 4 new medical services by year-end

Dr Abdullah Al Naqbi, Acting Executive Director, EHS Supportive Health Services, said: “The UAE Ministry of Health Services is the first health facility in the Middle East to advance and automate its smart nutrition services system, increasing the efficiency of the nutrition sector across all regions. Its hospitals and primary health centres and promote the transition to a digital system that provides target groups with healthy meals in accordance with the highest international health and food safety standards, taking into account the health requirements of each patient.”

Latifa Rashid said EHS is committed to developing a forward-looking plan that includes automating all its services and ensuring their sustainability through the implementation of international best practices and the adoption of advanced technologies, in line with the UAE Strategy 2071 and EHS’ own vision and development plan develop. The next 50 years.

“We strive to ensure efficiency and leadership in the UAE’s healthcare sector, helping clients lead healthy lifestyles and ensuring their well-being, ultimately enhancing the regional and global competitiveness of the UAE’s healthcare sector,” she said.

The new service includes four programs, namely, the transfer of malnourished children between the ages of 5 and 19; type 2 diabetes; tube feeding for patients, and finally, the tracking of children’s growth in the normal weight range and the automatic transfer of children to health centers.

These programs target heart disease, blood pressure, and malnutrition in undernourished, adult patients, overweight and obese patients, prediabetic patients, and older adults.

The “Transfer Malnourished Children 5-19” project aims to help children maintain a normal weight, reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases and malnutrition, improve their quality of life, and ensure sustainability by cutting the cost of treating these diseases. It also aims to ensure the health and safety of future generations, thereby increasing the productivity and promoting well-being of all community members.

The project uses the electronic system ML to automatically transfer target groups with malnutrition and nutrition-related diseases (overweight, obesity, wasting, stunting, wasting) from hospitals to nutrition clinics, providing them with nutritional care​​​and interventions. Children of normal weight and children with special needs are excluded.

Meanwhile, the Type 2 Diabetes program aims to shorten the length of hospital stays for patients; delay diabetes-related complications, thereby reducing the cost of treatment, care, and medication; and improve patients by helping them maintain normal blood sugar levels and work toward a healthy weight quality of life; and finally, prevention of disease-related complications.

The Tube Feeding program automatically refers patients who rely on tube feeding to a dietitian for nutritional assessment, identification of cases of malnutrition, and improvement of their nutrition, weight and quality. It also helps reduce complications of chronic disease and improves patients’ ability to eat by mouth.

Finally, “Tracking children’s growth within normal weight range and automatically transferring children to health centers” aims to create a system to track children’s growth and ensure they maintain a normal weight for healthy children. It targets children admitted to health centres, using the electronic program ML to automatically transfer them according to the criteria established by the nutrition department. The goal is to provide nutritional care and interventions to children according to department-approved protocols and guidelines.