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New Rules in Abu Dhabi Lead To Swamped Health Check Centers

Medical centres performing mandatory health tests on expatriates are being swamped with patients after new rules came into effect this year.

Many expatriates are having to queue for hours for the health tests, which are required for residence visas.

There are now only four Disease Prevention and Screening Centres in the emirate permitted to issue the health certificates required to obtain residency visas.Two are in the capital, one behind Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) and the other in Musaffah. The other two are in Al Ain and in Al Gharbia.

The Government decreed last summer that only selected public health centres could issue the certificates…SOURCE

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Dubai Metro On-Track to Finish Despite Financial Crisis

The Dh15.5 billion Dubai Metro project is going strong and is on schedule, despite the ongoing global financial crisis, Abdul Majeed Al Khaja, the CEO of the Rail Agency, said adding that reports about lay-offs are 
incorrect.

Speaking on the sidelines of the conference which saw the announcement of the first batch of companies winning the Metro stations Naming Rights bid, the official stressed on the fact that the project was concrete and condensed and firmly on track.

“There have been no layoffs as far as the Metro project goes. We don’t have an abundance of employees as the RTA employs according to the needs. Everyone working on the project has got a role and a job to do and we don’t have a surplus of people.

“In fact, the total number of employees currently working in the Metro and the Tram project is just one-sixth compared to similar projects anywhere in the world,” Al Khaja said.

“This means, that if an employer has hired 600 people for a project as big as the Metro, we have only hired 100. So, the number of employees are less and efficiency is more,”

Thirty Trains

The official said that till now, they had received 30 trains out of the total 44 which will run on the Red Line from September next year.

“Right now, we are focusing on the improvement and construction of roads which will lead to the entrance ports of the many stations. This is being done with the help of the Roads Agency. The Public Transport Agency is also helping and the new lot of 1,616 buses, which they have ordered, will be arriving in phases soon and will act as ‘Feeder buses’ transporting passengers from the many stations. Every mode of public transport will be integrated,” Khaja said…SOURCE

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