UAE healthcare drive treats 30,000 poor children

Nearly 30,000 children have received health care from a UAE global charity campaign to deliver health and medical services to one million underprivileged children.

The one-million child Giving Initiative treated 30,000 children through its international humanitarian mobile hospitals in the UAE, Morocco, Haiti, Lebanon, Egypt, Bosnia, Syria, Eritrea, and Indonesia.

A report issued by the organisers to mark the World Children's Day which falls on 20 November every year, said the focus in the next phase will be on preventive health programmes in the UAE through the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases (Weqaya) and on training workshops for developing skills of administrative, medical and technical staff in general medicine and surgery and emergency medicine under the National Emergency Medical Response Programme, (Estijaba).

The report said that Emirates National Volunteer Programme will also be intensified to realise its target of attracting one million volunteer.

The report quoted a statement by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union and of the Family Development Foundation, as saying in the launch of the campaign "the UAE will always take the lead when it comes to delivery of assistance and relief to needy and destitute patients out of its desire to alleviate suffering of affected people and secure decent and stable life to them."

She affirmed that the UAE is providing these humanitarian assistance to the those in need without distinction to race and religion.

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