UAE Health officials get first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

UAE Health officials get first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

SHARJAH - In line with the Ministry of Health and Prevention's, MoHAP's, plan to get frontline health workers vaccinated against the coronavirus, a number of health officials have taken the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Assistant Under-Secretary for the Hospital Sector and Director-General of the Emirates Health Services Corporation; Dr. Hussein Abdel Rahman Al-Rand, Under-Secretary of the Ministry's Health Assistant Sector, Health Centres, and Clinics; Awad Saghir Al Ketbi, Assistant Under-Secretary of the Support Services Sector, have all recently been administered the vaccine.Following the UAE's authorisation of the use of the vaccine by frontline workers, MoHAP has also started administering the vaccine to medical and nursing staff at Al Qassimi Hospital for Women & Children.In a statement, MoHAP said, "This step clearly underlines the interest and support