Hi All, first time poster.....I ve been successful in obtaining a position as a construction manager in Abu Dhabi due to commence this August , can anyone advise me as to the need for vaccinations. My GP tells me yes and wait 6 weeks to go but the agency in Dubai tells me no one he has placed in the two years he has been there has had vaccinations.
I am due for these jabs later this morning so urgent feed back would be very much appreciated.

hello robroy and welcome.
Erm what jabs are you having? Anti rattlesnake jab? calm driver jab? don't turn into a wanker jab?

As far as I'm aware you dont need any for here- well I certainly didn't have any!

Kittycat
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Yeah, but you were a gas mask.

Robroy: unless you'll be visiting far-flung places from here, you don't need any jabs. Never heard of anyone having them. Some doctors in UK haven't been outside Surrey.

I wear a gasmask. thats only when Im in stinky cabs though

We had all the Hep ones. Although not really a big risk...

kids were given the hep a and b, bcg and meg c. us adults have had the usual jabs over the years yellow fever, typhoid etc etc due to travelling in remote places, but anything special for here, not for adults, kids are different tho

No jabs required unless you plan to visit Sudan or Chad while you are here.

By the way. A little bird..( well a Big Eagle really) is telling me that AD is about to announce a huge slowdown of projects and a readjustment of budget. Which could be right seeing as they announced this week that all was Fab in AD and everything was going according to plan.........never a good sign here lol

Yup, and they have just recorded another massive budget deficit.


DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Oil-rich Abu Dhabi expects to post a budget deficit of 84.9 billion United Arab Emirates dirhams ($23.1 billion) in 2010, based on an assumed oil price of $60 a barrel for the year, after recording an even larger deficit in 2009 as it carries out its ambitious development plan, official documents show.

Abu Dhabi--which sits on the world's sixth-largest crude oil reserves--posted a deficit of AED126.5 billion in 2009 as crude oil prices slumped and the emirate spent more on development, according to figures published in the prospectus for a planned bond sale by local aircraft leasing and investment firm Waha Capital. The bond will be "unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed" by the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Those figures are a bit suspect. This year's average oil price to date is $75, and seems to be stabilising in the low 70's, so if you were to say the annual average will be $72, then with a daily output of 2.75mb that will give an additional revenue of $12 billion. Still a deficit, but only half of that predicted.

All down to the assumptions really. Either way, for the second time in yonks it's a deficit. I'm sure that this explains why a lot of the infrastructure programs were canned at the beginning of the year.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what occurs over the next couple of weeks

why do you think it will occur over the next couple of weeks? Just curious.

did you not read my 1st post???

By the way. A little bird..( well a Big Eagle really) is telling me that AD is about to announce a huge slowdown of projects and a readjustment of budget.
so "is about" means in the next couple of weeks :-)
Might be wrong but this is usually an excellent source.