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Same pay scale for all UAE doctors by March

This was announced by Dr Ahmed Al Mazrouei, Director-General of the Authority, at a Press conference yesterday.

Dr Mazrouei said that GAHS will start applying a cadre-type workforce in case of UAE physicians by next March as the ideal way to solve the problem faced by the group.

The decision follows Dr Mazrouei's meeting with UAE doctors on Monday, wherein they aired their grievances and sought solutions.

"The authority has formed a number of panels, especially to deal with problems faced by the national doctors, and we hope to strengthen the relationship and cooperation between the two," he said.

Dr Saqaf Al Saqaf, Head of the Board of Directors of UAE Medical Society, who also attended the doctors' meeting, stated that the common pay scale will be useful in case the UAE doctors exerted great efforts to excel in their performance.

Dr Al Saqaf also highlighted the need to involve national doctors in the technical panels in the hospitals, besides offering them better opportunities to get trained in specific areas.

The meeting also discussed issues including evaluation of the Arab and Saudi Board certificates, shift hours of work, opportunities to pursue specialised studies abroad, construction of an eye surgery centre and the intake of dentists who were under the Ministry of Health.

Responding to the questions, Dr Mazrouei remarked that hospitals would be responsible for implementing the decision of applying a cadre-type workforce system in case of UAE nationals. He assured that the work contracts would be the same.

He also confirmed that those UAE doctors and administrators who held high positions in the hospitals and within the Authority could get promoted as medical directors. The UAE doctors who want to complete their studies abroad will be subsidised by GAHS, he added.

As for the work hours and shifts, Dr Mazrouei declared that they would adopt a uniform limited time-frame at all hospitals and the primary health centres affiliated to the GAHS.

About the future of medical services in Abu Dhabi, he stated that the authority had hired an international consultative company to devise an integrated strategy for the medical services in Abu Dhabi for the coming twenty years.

The consultative firm will do a comprehensive survey and evaluate the medical requirements in the emirate including expansion of the infrastructure, recruitment of medical staff etc.

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