Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
Olfat Nasser Alzaabi, Mona Salah, Antonio R Porras, Elijah Biggs, Yamen El Moghanni, Usama Ahmad, Mona Abdul Rahman, Sonia Coutinho1, Noor El Hoda1, Anshad Ummerkhan1, Luay A Wahab, Hussein Eleimy, Safyia Saif Al Khajeh and Marius George Linguraru
Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE
Children�s National Health System, USA
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Pediatr Ther
Collection of birth and population information is essential to providing vital statistics data for national use. Th e purpose of this study is to report statistics on the distribution of the newborn population in the United Arab Emirates, specifi cally in the Northern Emirates of Sharjah and Fujairah. We collected demographic information from 1059 random subjects born between October 2015 and March 2017 at Al Qassimi Hospital in Sharjah (630 newborns) and Fujairah Hospital (429 newborns), in the network of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention. Th e gender distribution of the newborns was 532 females (50.24%) and 527 males (49.76%). Th is distribution diff ered between the hospitals with 47.94% females and 52.06% males at Al Qassimi and 53.61% females and 46.39% males at Fujairah. Th e average gestational age at birth was 38.29�±1.84 weeks (38.51�±1.25 weeks at Al Qassimi, 37.98�±2.42 weeks at Fujairah). Th e ethnic distribution of the newborns was 57.88% Middle Eastern (39.05% at Al Qassimi, 85.55% at Fujairah), 16.34% South Asian (26.03% at Al Qassimi, 2.10% at Fujairah), 7.27% Asian-other than South Asian (7.62% at Al Qassimi, 6.76% at Fujairah), 3.68% African-other than North African (4.76% at Al Qassimi, 2.10% at Fujairah), 3.12% North African (4.92% at Al Qassimi, 0.47% at Fujairah), 0.28% Caucasian (0.48% at Al Qassimi, 0% at Fujairah) and 11.43% with mixed ethnicity (17.14% at Al Qassimi, 3.03% at Fujairah).
Olfat Nasser Alzaabi is a Pediatric Consultant and Head of Pediatric Department at Fujairah Hospital. She has completed her MBBS from Dubai Medical College for Girls in 2003. She was trained at UAE University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and has completed her Pediatric Arab Board Residency in 2011. She is a Member of Royal College of Pediatric and Child Health since 2013. She is Faculty at RAK Medical College and was recently appointed as the Director of Pediatric Arab Board Residency Program at Fujairah Hospital. Beside her clinical interest in neonatology and management of extreme preterm babies, she is passionate about pediatric cardiology.