COVID-19: UAE administers three million vaccine doses

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 180,930 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours

The total number of doses provided up to Friday stands at 3,006,601 with a rate of vaccine distribution of 30.40 doses per 100 people.

This is in line with the Ministry’s plan to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to all members of society and efforts to reach acquired immunity resulting from the vaccination, which will help reduce the number of cases and control the COVID-19 virus.

Recently, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) officially opened Al-Qassimi Hospital’s Regenerative Medicine Centre. The newly launched centre is equipped with state-of-the-art medical gadgets and devices, as well as qualified medical, technical, and nursing teams.

The centre offering plasma and hyperbaric oxygen therapy includes a unit equipped with smart bandages and Four-Dimensional (4D) Bioprinting for self-adipose tissue printing. Regenerative medicine is the branch of medicine that develops methods to regrow, repair, or replace damaged or diseased cells, organs, or tissues.

Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Director-General of the Emirates Health Services Corporation, said , “The centre is a paradigm shift towards further development of the hospital’s services, thanks to the presence of a highly competent multidisciplinary team and the availability of all capability, resources, and technology infrastructure, in addition to international partnerships with long-established medical organisations to encourage scientific research.”