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The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs will issue work permits online by the end of this year, a senior official said yesterday.

Ahmed Kajoor, Assistant Undersecretary of the ministry, said the move is meant to speed processing of permits and curb forgery and trading of them.

By the year 2005, the UAE will have the highest Internet penetration of the region at 38 per cent. At that time there will be 1,346,000 million Internet users in the country.

The Department of Health and Medical Services (DOHMS) has installed an Integrated Healthcare Information System (IHIS) that allows the networking and systems integration of Dubai's four major hospitals, Rashid Hospital, Dubai Hospital, Al Wasl Hospital and Al Maktoum Hospital, and twenty other primary healthcare centers, with DOHMS online platform.

The Department of Health and Medical Services (DOHMS) has announced the launch of an online eDirham facility through its new portal www.dohms.gov.ae, making it the first government department to offer this service over the Internet, as part of an initiative aimed at facilitating procedures of the ePay service.

Building on the successful introduction of the E-Stamp service at both the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and Industry (MOFI) is to introduce E-Stamp services to the Department of Naturalization and Residency at the Ministry of Interior through the use of 'Smart Forms' throughout its operations.