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Gulf Today
5 days ago
- Health
- Gulf Today
Oncology nurse from Ghana wins global nursing award
A Ghanaian wife-and-mother, 24 years as a healthcare professional in her home country, and whose curiosity into why 70 per cent of the cases of the preventable cancer – most of the time – are diagnosed at their precarious stage – let her get into community engagements for the much-needed solutions, has been chosen as the fourth recipient of a UAE-borne international award. From over 105,000 applications across 199 countries, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital-National Radiotherapy Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Centre-Nursing Department head Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, is the fourth woman and the second African to win the three-year-old 'Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award.' The ceremonies were held in Dubai on Monday with chief guest the UAE Minister of Tolerance and Co-Existence Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan. Guests included Diplomatic Community officials, 2024 winner Philippine Army consultant Maria Victoria Juan NC (Reserve), and Miss Universe 1994 Sushmita Sen. From the press conference, jury members Asia Healthcare Holdings executive chairman Vishal Bali, International Diabetes Foundation president elect Dr Niti Pall, Officer of the Order of the British Empire awardee Dr Peter Carter, University of Technology (Sydney, Australia) adjunct professor Dr. James Buchan, and Botswana former health minister Professor Sheila Tlou, called for global support to all nurses worldwide. The five who bestowed the 2022 award to Kenyan nurse-epidemiologist Anna Qabale Duba - whose advocacies include the fight against cultural practices namely early marriages and female genitalia - verdicted that Oti is the most qualified to receive the prestigious award that goes with a $250,000.00 (Dhs 918,231.25/2,612,807.18 Ghanaian Cedi) because her cancer community projects, encompassing care, compassion, and continuing learning education and training are replicable in any country. They implied that fence-sitting leads to the perilous downfall of local to international quality healthcare. From the 'State of the World's Nursing 2025" of the World Health Organisation (WHO): 'Consolidating information from the WHO's 194 Member States, the evidence indicates global progress in reducing the nursing workforce shortage from 6.2 million in 2020 to 5.8 million in 2023, with a projection to decline to 4.1 million by 2030. Approximately 78 per cent of the world's nurses are concentrated in countries just 49 per cent of the global population.' In his awarding ceremonies online message, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, underscored the 'urgency' to long-lasting 'massive investments in nursing education, job security, leadership development and working conditions through informed data, training by equity and inspired by the courage and compassion of nurses.' He stated: 'The global nursing workforce has grown, they are unequally distributed. Countries that make up less than half of the world's population are almost 80 per cent of the world's nurses like in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. These inequalities affect communities on a daily basis.' Bali expressed gratitude for Oti's commitment to solutions addressing cancer that he said, has remained to be a global menace: 'We are still four million nurses short worldwide. There are only a few countries which are actually training nurses for the entire world. A lot more work has to be done in terms of creating more nurses workforce.' Buchan said: 'No nurses. No healthcare. Insufficient nurses. Insufficient healthcare. We are short of nurses worldwide. We need to be doing collectively all that we can to support more people coming into the profession and keep those who are already in the profession as long as they want to.' Pall who has worked in universal healthcare worldwide, said: 'There is a 60 million healthcare shortage by 2030 including nurses. The development of nurses, particularly in the low to medium income countries is the strongest single force. This award encourages that.' Carter stressed that all countries face challenges in their respective healthcare systems with every 'discipline' with a 'shortage of staff,' thereby '40 million people do not have access to healthcare.' Referencing to the distinguished professional qualifications of the Top 10 candidates who have evolved into nurses with up-scaled credentials with individualised community-driven purposes, Carter added: 'This award has shown that there are different ways of managing healthcare irrespective of race, religion, country and nationality. Health is a global issue.' Tlou was happy that Oti would be able to carry on her advocacies.
India Gazette
22-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
"UAE understands pain of India": Shrikant Shinde highlights India's resolve against terrorism
Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 23 (ANI): A high-level all-party delegation led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde participated in an interaction event with the Indian community in the UAE, where he thanked the leadership of the Gulf nation for extending its support in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. While speaking at the interaction with the Indian Community at Indian Embassy in UAE, MP Shrikant Shinde hailed the longstanding ties between the two countries. 'UAE and India share a very special bond which is beyond trade and culture... since its inception we share a special bond with each other and in testing times we stood by each other. It was UAE who was the first country who condemned this terror attack and stood firmly with India,' he said. He underscored how such testing times bring forward real friends. MP Shinde said, 'I think it is very important in this tested times... you also come to know who is your real friend, true friend and we came to know that UAE is the country we can rely upon.' He shared that the delegations held meetings with several dignitaries such as Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Co-Existence and also the Chairman of the Defence Council along with several think tanks. 'So it was very much overwhelming that UAE understands the pain of India', he said. He added, 'UAE knows what is happening in India and who is doing it. We are here to send a message to the whole world, a clear-cut message about zero tolerance against terrorism... The whole world should know what is really happening in Asia, what is really happening in India, how India is fighting this terrorism since very long time, since four decades and now we have a new normal that we will not tolerate any kind of terrorist activities, 'zero tolerance against terrorism'-is what our Prime Minister say'. He highlighted that this message has to be sent clearly to the world because of false propaganda against the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor. 'In the realm of religion, number of things have been committed... We were overwhelmed by the way Sheikh Nahyan ji, then Dr Ali Rashid Al-Numaniji made very clear-cut statements that terrorism in the name of religion cannot be appreciated, cannot be supported at any point of time. This is very important', MP Shinde said. Earlier in the day, the delegation paid tributes at the bust of Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian Embassy in the UAE. The delegation held meetings with UAE leadership on the significance of Operation Sindoor and reaffirmed India's firm stance against cross-border terrorism. UAE is the first stop of the broader four-nation diplomatic outreach by the all-party delegation. The delegation met Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Co-Existence. Al Nahyan conveyed his deep condolences for the Pahalgam terrorist attack. The delegation highlighted the perpetration of cross-border terrorism and Pakistan's efforts to cause social disharmony in India. 'India and UAE will tackle terrorism together. The UAE will always stand by India,' the UAE Minister said. The all-party delegation comprises MPs Bansuri Swaraj, ET Mohmd Basheer, Atul Garg, Sasmit Patra, Manan Kumar Mishra, BJP leader Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia, and former Ambassador Sujan Chinoy. The delegation held substantive discussions with Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of Federal National Council and other senior Emirati parliamentarians. The delegation underscored the precise, measured, and non-escalatory nature of Operation Sindoor against the barbaric terrorist attack on the tourists in Kashmir on April 22. The UAE was among the first countries to issue a statement categorically condemning the Pahalgam terrorist attack. UAE leaders, President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan personally conveyed their condolences to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar over phone calls. (ANI)
India.com
22-05-2025
- Politics
- India.com
Relationship Extends Beyond Trade And Culture, Will Tackle Terrorism Together: UAE Assures Visiting Indian Delegation
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday assured India that both countries will tackle terrorism together as the strong bilateral relationship extends beyond trade and culture, also encompassing security and strategic issues. UAE's Minister of Tolerance and Co-Existence Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan, Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi - Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of Federal National Council - besides several other senior Emirati parliamentarians expressed full solidarity with India as a high-level all-party delegation from India led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde called on them in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. As the delegation highlighted the perpetration of cross-border terrorism and efforts to cause social disharmony in India by Pakistan, Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan conveyed his deep condolences on the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attacks and said, "India and UAE will tackle terrorism together. The UAE will always stand by India." The delegation then held substantive discussions with Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of Federal National Council, underscoring the precise, measured, and non-escalatory nature of Operation Sindoor against the barbaric terrorist attack on the tourists in Kashmir on April 22. According to the Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi, during the meeting, Nuaimi stressed, "India-UAE relationship is beyond trade and culture, and encompasses security and strategic issues. Terrorism is against the whole of humanity and the international community must act now." The UAE is the first stop of the broader four-nation diplomatic outreach for the delegation which also comprises other Members of Parliament, including Bansuri Swaraj, ET Mohmd Basheer, Atul Garg, Sasmit Patra, Manan Kumar Mishra, Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia and former Ambassador Sujan Chinoy. Soon after their arrival in the country, the delegation held meetings with the UAE leadership and media to brief on the significance of Operation Sindoor and reaffirm India's firm stance against cross-border terrorism. The delegation also held discussions with Jamal Al Kaabi, Director General, National Media Office and addressed concerns over misinformation campaigns emanating from Pakistan. They presented factual evidence to counter the disinformation and exposed Pakistan's propaganda machinery. Shinde, as the leader of the delegation, gave an interview to UAE's leading newspaper, The National, drawing the complete timeline of India's long battle against cross-border terrorism and setting of new normal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against cross-border terrorism with Operation Sindoor. The delegation's day concluded with an interaction with the Indian community based in the UAE recognising their vital contributions and reaffirming India's commitment to its diaspora. The delegation addressed and commended the diaspora for upholding the values of tolerance, pluralism, and unity, and for resisting divisive efforts aimed at destabilising India's social fabric. On Friday, the delegation is scheduled to participate in closed-door strategic dialogues with leading think tanks and thought leaders based in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The UAE was among the first countries to issue a statement categorically condemning the Pahalgam terrorist attack. UAE leaders, President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan personally conveyed their condolences to PM Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar over phone calls.
