UAE President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai and HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, have all come together to congratulate a team of researchers who may have just had a breakthrough moment in the development of a treatment for COVID-19.
A stem-cell treatment has been developed by a team of doctors and researchers in the UAE at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center (ADSCC).
The treatment, which is still in its development stages, involves the extraction of stem cells from the blood of someone who has the coronavirus, and reintroducing those cells after they have been activated.
#UAE stem cell centre develops promising breakthrough Covid-19 treatment that was administered to 73 Covid-19 patients, who have all been successfully cured of the virus. https://t.co/7PWEzOztT0 pic.twitter.com/KdMjJIiXbr
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) May 1, 2020
The treatment has been trialed on 73 patients so far, who have all recovered from COVID-19 since undergoing the treatment.
The UAE’s leaders took to Twitter to, via another tweet from the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), to thank the medical team and support staff at ADSCC for their efforts in the creation of the stem cell treatment which could save lives not only within the UAE, but all over the world.
“The Ministry is following with great attention the developments of this breakthrough and fully supports the earnest efforts being made by the team of scientists and medical experts from the Ministry and the academia to provide treatment to Covid-19 patients,” read a statement from the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) last week.
