In the News - Prime Hospital

Transiting Australian - now recovered - tested positive while on a stopover in the emirate

The impact of the diagnosis will have a bearing on the person and his or her family and friends.

Appreciating the role played by private hospitals in effectively managing COVID 19 cases, Dr Al Mulla said: “With the help and support of private hospitals, we have successfully managed the pandemic.”

DHA Dubai’s preventive COVID-19 medical checkups are in motion in Al Ras area, in collaboration with DubaiPoliceHQ, Municipality, and Dubai Ambulance along with a number of private hospitals including Medeor, Aster and Prime.

In the seventh part of our series, we look at the measures taken by hospitals in the UAE to reduce plastic usage.

Wendy was picked up by DXB’s thermal scanner with high fever and after a test that came positive for COVID-19 was hospitalised in the isolatin ward at the private Prime Hospital.

Dr Adel Al Sisi, chief medical officer at Prime Hospital, said it is important to understand prevention methods. "Shoe soles are also a kind of surface and we know this deadly virus can stay on surfaces from a few hours until nine days. These surfaces can be of different kinds including our skin, clothes, shoes, plastic, steel or glass, which must be disinfected frequently to avoid the spread of the virus."

Dubai-based psychiatrist Dr Naresh Kumar Dhar of Prime Hospital provided us these 15 tips for dealing with this pandemic in the healthiest way, from basic concepts to more complex realisations.

Dubai-based Dr Dirar Abdallah, specialist in internal medicine and head of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the COVID-19 ward at Prime Hospital, explained what this means.