The United Arab
Emirates has been on its toes since the outbreak of coronavirus. The Emirati
nation has been very consistent and persistent as far as safety concerns of its
citizens are concerned.
They have taken a
number of actions to control the spread of disease in the country from struct
safety and travel protocols to hefty fines for flouting rules, everything was
taken care of by the UAE officials.
It is the result
of these efforts that the UAE’s anti-coronavirus work has paid off with a 96.5
percent recovery rate recorded thi week. Throughout this journey, the UAE has
made efforts to provide ease of medical care to its citizens and keep the covid
positive case number in control. This has been time and again confirmed by the
UAE officials and one again is asserted by Dr Dirar Abdullah, who is the chair
of internal medicare at Prime Hospital.
He said, “The
numbers in the UAE seem to have stabilised, ranging between 1,300 and 1,500.
Most of the patients now are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and in
just a matter of 10 days, they are considered "non-infectious" and
are on their road to recovery. We have also seen many critically-ill patients
spring back to life, thanks to the UAE government that has given the healthcare
sector the infrastructure and resources to provide these patients best medical
care. We now have the expertise, best equipment such as ventilators in
abundance and the right medication.”
Another health
official, Jyothi Upadhyay, also applauded the efforts and called this a big
achievement. She works as an internal medicine specialist at Aster Hospital -
Mankhool. She said that this percentage of recovery rate is the lowest in the
whole world where the mortality rate is below 0.5 percent. She credited the
government for taking such necessary steps to control the virus.
"The UAE has also figured among the top 10 countries
in the world for coronavirus treatment. This was based on sophistication and
effectiveness of efforts to monitor the spread of the virus, treatment of
patients, in addition to the capacity to develop, test, validate and deploy
experimental vaccines and treatments," she added.
These health experts who
have seen the patients and the healthcare system working with their own eyes
have accepted that there was a sharp contrast from the beginning of the
pandemic to how it has turned out today.
Dr Jean Marc Gaeur, CEO RAK Hospital said that unlike today we have all
the medications that are needed to be given in serious cases. The UAE is now among
the top 10 countries in handling coronavirus and this is due to the
effectiveness of efforts to monitor the spread of the virus, he added.
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