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Ensuring the health of all individuals visiting or living in the UAE is an important issue that needs to be handled efficiently as much as delicately. Hence, whenever a new health check-up system is to be introduced, the goals have to be clearly identified and vigorously followed through.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) recently issued a new ministerial decree which makes it compulsory for all foreigners visiting the UAE for work or study and stay for a period of six months or more to undergo a series of compulsory tests that cover diseases such as HIV/Aids, Hepatitis B and leprosy.
These tests will be carried out under the supervision and authority of the MOH, Abu Dhabi Health Authority and Dubai Health Authority.
Sorting out a system for checking all incoming individuals is quite a major task, especially when the number of visitors and residents has been staggeringly increasing over time, and is expected to rise further in the future.
But what is most important here is that the screening process of finding disease-carriers from others is efficient, competent, and timely, and perhaps this aspect would be the most critical test of the system's success or failure.
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