UAE fights Covid: First Emirati male nurse urges more nationals to join healthcare
Majid Salim Al Hammadi
Al Hammadi hopes to inspire many more nationals to pursue a career in nursing.
The first UAE national to be a male nurse, Majid Salim Al Hammadi, has been successfully balancing work and doctoral studies during the pandemic.
Currently, he is the charge nurse at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) operating room department.
Al Hammadi hopes to inspire many more nationals to pursue a career in nursing.His nursing journey started in 2015 when he joined Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) as an intern. For the next two years, he was on rotation in paediatric emergency, medical, surgical and operating rooms. In 2018, he began his master’s degree in managing care in perioperative and anesthesia practice from Cardiff University. In 2020, at the height of Covid-19 pandemic, Al Hammadi completed his postgraduate while learning to balance the demands of his job with studies. H
“Common ground is just that – the soil we tread on that gently holds us together,” he said.
The conference was hosted by the new Shared Island Unit set up by the government to help maintain all-island relations post-Brexit.
Speakers, including scientists, regulators and environmental activists, said while there were strong links and shared projects between universities and environmental groups north and south, official policy was not always so closely aligned.
They raised concerns around the Brexit fall-out and what the implications may be for a Northern Ireland no longer bound by EU environmental directives or the biodiversity clauses in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
Former UFU president contests Seanad agri-panel seat
Former President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) Ian Marshall is contesting a seat in the Seanad on the Agricultural Panel in the 2021 by-election.
The seat became available after former Minister of State Michael D’Arcy resigned to take up a new role with the Irish Association of Investment Managers (IAIM) last year.
Marshall, from Co. Armagh, is contesting the seat as an independent candidate and has said that “it has never been more important that members elected to this panel have direct experience and capacity to fight for farming”.
Marshall’s background
Baby clothing and other items hang from a tree at a cemetery in Tuam, Ireland, where the bodies of nearly 800 infants were uncovered at the site of a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children. The photo was taken Jan. 12, 2021, the day a commission investigating the treatment of women in such homes released its report. On Jan. 26, Northern Ireland s government released a 534-page report on mother and baby homes there. (CNS/Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Killyleagh, Northern Ireland The young mother wrapped her baby son in a shawl and carefully pushed a letter to his adoptive parents into a bag stuffed with toys, sweaters and other clothes.
Some churchgoers believe Covid pandemic is judgement from God Some churchgoers believe coronavirus is a judgement from God, a report has found Connla Young
Dr Gladys Ganiel
SOME churchgoers believe the coronavirus pandemic is a judgement from God, new research has revealed.
A report by Queen s University Belfast also found that inter-Church co-operation has been more frequent and united during the pandemic than any other time in Irish history.
Something Other than a Building: A Report on Churches on the Island of Ireland during the Covid-19 Pandemic, by Dr Gladys Ganiel from the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, involved 32 in-depth interviews with clergy from across Ireland and follows a survey of faith leaders published in 2020.