Ramadan rescue for residents in deep debt

Unknown donors have offered Dh263,000 for a bed-ridden Emirati man suffering from extreme obesity and placed under hospital arrest and a Mauritanian ex-police man jailed for defaulting on debt to banks.

The Duabi-based Arabic language daily Emirat Alyoum said it had received immediate public response to appeals from the two men who have been arrested for failing to pay back debt to creditors after losing their jobs.

One donor, who asked the paper not to mention his name, gave Dh193,000 while the remaining sum was donated by other unknown persons.

Mohammed Abdul Amir, 28, has been bed-ridden at Al-Qassimi hospital in Sharjah under police guard after gaining 165 kg in just four years because of ailment that led to the loss of his job and default on his Dh143,000-debt.

Quoted by Emirat Alyoum on Monday, Mohammed, who has three little sons, appealed for help to pay his dues so he can regain his freedom and undergo an operation for treatment of obesity after his weight reached 250 kg.

Before he was moved to Sharjah, Mohammed had been admitted to Abu Dhabi’s Almafraq Hospital, where doctors said he is suffering from extreme obesity, hypertension and what is medically termed as “sleep apnea”, in which a patient has one or more pauses in breathing during sleep.

Emirat Alyoum said the donated money would also be used to help ex-policeman Ould Mohammed Mustafa, who has been jailed in Sharjah for defaulting on debt to local banks. It said the 52-year-old Mauritanian had borrowed to provide treatment for his ill nine-year-old daughter, Aysha, bit it did not specify the debt.
 

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