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UAE has 1.5% error rate

  • United Arab Emirates: Sunday, November 04 - 2007 at 07:24

The UAE's Ministry of Health has revealed that there is a 1.5% medical error rate in the country's public hospitals and centres, reported Gulf News. Dr Ali bin Shakar, the Undersecretary at the ministry, said the figure was within accepted international standards but the department was working on a plan to reduce the number of mistakes. Bin Shakar also revealed the country has a chronic shortage of nurses.

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