Asma Ali Zain

SHARJAH — Some of the patients visiting the Emergency and Trauma Centre at the Al Qasimi Hospital in Sharjah allege they have to wait for long hours before someone finally attends to them.

DUBAI — Several passengers travelling to Karachi from Dubai on Pakistan International Airlines were stranded for the entire day yesterday after the aircraft developed ‘technical glitches.’

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DUBAI — Ambulances in Dubai will now be able to relay the exact condition of a patient to paramedics via a TV screen installed at the hospital’s emergency and trauma centre.

DUBAI — With the National Emergency Authority in place, the health sector is stressing on the early need for a National Disaster Management Plan, said a senior health official yesterday.

AJMAN — Bird flu scare panicked an Ajman woman into calling up municipality hotline for help after she caught sight of an apparently sick bird in her garden on Friday.

DUBAI — The Ministry of Health (MoH) along with the General Secretariat of Municipalities will soon start monitoring the sale of food supplements that claim to have medicinal properties in order to regulate the flow of herbal and natural products into the market.

DUBAI — For nature-lover Saeed Mian, a Pakistani expatriate, progress, to a large extent, means the growth of gardens. From that prism too, Dubai, says Mian, is a huge success, aside from the breathtaking skyscrapers that dot the city’s ambience today.

SHARJAH – The two-year-old Pakistani boy, Harris, who was critically injured in a tragic incident when his mother pushed him out of a window in their eighth floor flat in order to save him from a fire, is showing signs of recovery, his parents have said.

DUBAI — ‘Junk food is cheaper than fruits,’ say health experts, citing poor eating habits and modern lifestyle as the major cause for the increasing number of heart disease among UAE residents, including children.

SHARJAH — Areeb, the three-year-old Pakistani boy who died under tragic circumstances on Monday when his mother threw him down from their eighth floor apartment that was on fire, was buried in the Al Ghubaiba cemetery yesterday afternoon.