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Sixty-eight per cent of Abu Dhabi’s Health Services Company (SEHA) entire workforce comprises of female healthcare workers.
That's a total of 12,100 women employees, with nearly 6,000 working as nursing staff; 1,775 as doctors and physicians and 2,500 serving as personnel across the network’s Ambulatory Healthcare Services.
Meanwhile, 2,191 female staff are from Tawam Hospital and 2,083 women are currently working at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City.
The figures were unveiled on the occasion of International Women’s Day, that's marked every year on March 8.
Officials said the numbers highlight the resilience, courage and determination of female frontliners as health workers and caregivers, community organisers and innovators.