Abu Dhabi: The Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteer Programme and the Frontline Heroes Office are partnering to provide UAE frontline professionals accredited emergency and disaster management training through a new comprehensive programme that is recognised as the international gold standard for medical and emergency response.
The new “Jaheziya” training initiative, which translates as “Readiness” from Arabic, will enhance the knowledge and skills of frontline professionals at all levels who play a critical role in protecting the people of the UAE during emergencies. It will also provide frontline heroes with highly valuable career development through the opportunity to achieve internationally recognised accredited certification in specialised disaster response.
New training scheme to boost UAE s emergency response
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Frontline professionals will get advanced medical and emergency response training.
The Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteer Programme and the Frontline Heroes Office are partnering to launch a Jaheziya training initiative.
Jaheziya which means ‘readiness’ will ensure that all citizens and residents of the UAE are protected by highly skilled emergency and disaster management professionals. They will get advanced medical and emergency response training for a number of potential situations from infectious diseases and airborne viruses to natural disasters, fires and nuclear incidents.
The programme will be offered to all medical professionals paramedics, staff working in a wide range of emergency and crisis response departments and all professionals and volunteers on the Frontline Heroes Office registry.
Abu Dhabi: It was a February morning when Colonel Mohammed Al Khoury, Deputy of the Capital Police Department, received a call that would define the next six months of his life. The words were simple and direct: “Come to the crisis management centre. We have a mission.”
The voice at the other end of the phone was that of Major General Maktoum Ali Al Sharifi, Director General of Abu Dhabi Police. The mission: COVID-19.
Despite receiving 23 medals in his career, serving almost five years in the police academy after graduation, for Colonel Al Khoury it was an operation outside the realms of ordinary police work – coordinating Abu Dhabi’s fast-paced response to keeping the public safe from what has become the world’s biggest public health crisis.
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Sheikh Mohamed s Don’t worry motivated this Abu Dhabi cop to fight Covid-19
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Colonel Mohammed Al Khoury, Deputy of the Capital Police Department, Abu Dhabi Police. - Supplied Photo
Abu Dhabi cop beat Covid, stayed away from his family for two months to help battle the pandemic.
A simple Don’t worry from His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, helped a top Abu Dhabi Police officer beat Covid-19.
Colonel Mohammed Al Khoury, Deputy of the Capital Police Department, recovered from the disease and then resumed his duty on the frontlines in the war against Covid-19.