Language

English

Producer

Creative Zone Marketing Management
Mr. Zuhair Maimani

URL

www.mymd-uae.com

Description

It is awareness and understanding of the needs of the people for medical and health assistance which lead to the creation of a medical search engine that would conform to their needs. My Medical Directory is the newest technology in the United Arab Emirates that provides the widest scope of information in health. It is the exclusive official Health Information Provider in partnership with the Ministry of Health in the UAE. The Medical Directory offers a source to carry out research and learn the medical definitions of numerous for the entire medical and health section or anything connected to the health life and was designed to establish a fully electronic database of health practitioners operating all over the world.

Reason for nomination

Language

English, Arabic

Producer

Ministry of Health
Ms. Maban Mansouri

URL

www.moh.gov.bh

Description

Ministry of Health Website is the channel in which the Ministry can provide its services electronically. The MoH portal provides various electronic services such as: electronic Birth Registration, viewing vaccination records of children, students and Health workers, checking details of appointments previously booked at MoH clinics, checking readiness status of radiology reports, checking blood information and last date of donation, booking appointments at MoH private clinics, checking the drug prices, searching details of licensed Health professionals and Health Institutions. An important service is also the “Ask a Doctor Service”: The website visitor can ask Health related questions to a Team of Health Professionals in the Ministry of Health. The portal is conformed to W3C Accessibility Guidelines to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.

Reason for nomination

Language

English, Arabic

Producer

Ministry of Health
Mr. Abdulmuhsen Alshammari

URL

www.sokary.org

Description

Diabetes still persists in the small Kuwaiti society in large numbers and poses a serious threat. The Kuwait Diabetes Team was established with a new approach to bring awareness and education. The Kuwait Diabetes Team is providing its service via the Internet to promote healthy lifestyle changes and methods to help decrease the risk for diabetes, and help manage it with people who have it. The team consists of doctors that specialize in diabetes and nutrition specialists. The websites goals include 1. Increase awareness of diabetes to Kuwaiti citizens and residents 2. Contribute in the treatment of patients with diabetes 3. Constant and direct communication with diabetes patients by providing them with advice and guidelines. The website is bilingual (Arabic and English) in order to be accessible to the maximum number of people. The website is opened for all people inside and outside Kuwait. It is maintained and updated on weekly basis. People with diabetes can register as members to have specific advantages such as free online consultations. Also, health care professional can apply freely as a member.

Reason for nomination

Diabetes is the highest spread disease among Kuwaitis, older people as well as young kids, and it is threatening the health level with a great risk. Most of the people in Kuwait don’t find enough information about the disease in Arabic; this website was established to mainly fill that gap. The website was produced by Doctors who are specialists in this disease, who wanted to publish useful content to raise awareness of the society on how to prevent the risk levels of Diabetes. And given the fact that the type of food a diabetic patients have is what makes his situation either stable or bad, this website also offers such nutritional information, especially with the traditional Kuwaiti food dishes and the Kuwaiti eating/activity habits. The website focuses on Kuwaiti traditional foods and gives diabetic patients options of how to replace the dangerous ingredients in Kuwaiti dishes, or reduce the amount of an ingredient...etc. Such information is very local and is not available on other Diabetes websites from around the world.