A parliamentary report approved by the Social Affairs, Labour, Population and Human Resources Committee in the Federal National Council revealed a number of challenges and observations facing enhancing citizens’ participation in the health sector, most notably “the small number of university hospitals specialized in training citizen cadres after graduation,” as the report concluded, which it discusses. During its plenary session scheduled to be held this morning, within the topic of “Government Policy on Enhancing Citizens’ Participation in the Health Sector,” the Council made a number of recommendations, the most important of which is increasing the incentives and benefits provided by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection to citizen health professionals, and amending the scale of salaries and rewards for medical personnel and health professions. Help.
In detail, the Federal National Council will hold its fifth session of the first regular session of the 18th legislative term, this morning, headed by the Speaker of the Council, Saqr Ghobash, to discuss the issue of the government’s policy on enhancing citizens’ participation in the health sector, in the presence of the Minister of Health and Community Protection and the Minister of State for National Council Affairs. Federal, Abdul Rahman Al Owais, senior leaders of the ministry and officials of the health sector in the country.
During the session, the Social Affairs, Labour, Population and Human Resources Committee in the Council is scheduled to present its official parliamentary report on the discussions, observations and recommendations it concluded on the subject of the government’s policy on enhancing citizen participation in the health sector, for discussion and approval by the Council members, and the parliamentary recommendations are adopted in wording. agreed upon by Council members.
According to the parliamentary report, the Social Affairs Committee discussed the issue of the government’s policy on enhancing citizens’ participation in the health sector, referred from the 17th (previous) legislative term, within three main axes, including: “The policy of attracting specialized national medical personnel, qualifying and training national medical personnel, and raising their efficiency in The medical sector, and the challenges of the national medical cadres at the helm of their work.” The committee held several meetings and interviews with leaders and representatives of the Ministry of Health and Community Protection and the health sector in the country, to respond to the inquiries of the committee members, obtain statistics regarding the national cadres in the health sector in various specialties, and get to know each other. To the efforts and initiatives of the Ministry regarding strengthening the nursing profession in light of the existence of the “Nafis” program, which works to provide training and specialized programs required in the labor market for Emirati cadres.
The report stated that the committee focused, during its discussion with representatives of the Ministry of Health, on academic guidance programs directed at attracting high school students to the nursing profession and the number of students who were attracted during the last five years, as well as the policies, strategies, initiatives and programs adopted by the Ministry to strengthen qualified national cadres in medical specialties and the nursing and midwifery profession. .
He pointed out that the committee discussed with government representatives the development of mechanisms and procedures for licensing the practice of professions for national medical personnel and attracting them, and launching more initiatives and programs that are being implemented to employ modern technologies and artificial intelligence in the field of qualifying and training health personnel in a manner consistent with future requirements to achieve sustainability in this vital sector. In addition to the need to develop and update legislation related to training and qualification, and the Ministry’s efforts in coordinating with government and private education institutions regarding colleges of medicine and medical sciences and expanding the specializations offered.
The parliamentary report monitored a number of challenges and observations facing the promotion of citizen participation in the health sector, most notably “the small number of university hospitals specialized in training citizen cadres after graduation, the Ministry’s plan to address this challenge, and the technical and administrative problems facing the committee to promote qualified national cadres in various health specialties.” “This slows down the rates of implementation of the tasks assigned to it since its establishment.”
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