Campaign to Cure One Million Children and Elderly People expands into Africa '&' Asia

posted on 08/01/2012: 59 views

The UAE's Campaign to Cure One Million Children and Elderly People started expansion into Asia and Africa in coordination with the ministries of health in targeted countries, according to Dr. Adel Al Shameri, CEO of Emirates Global Humanitarian Mobile Hospital (Elaj) '&' the Zayed Giving Initiative.

The number of mobile hospitals run and funded by the UAE went up to four with a capacity of 250 beds, according to the operation plan for 2012 which will be approved in the coming weeks, Shameri said.

The expansion plan which is part of the UAE's humanitarian effort worldwide is collaborated by the Red Crescent Authority (RCA), the Women General Union, the Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, the Khalifa bin Zayed Charity Foundation, the Ministry of Health and the UAE Armed Forces, he noted.

So far, beneficiaries of the Campaign included more than 900000 children in Pakistan, Eritrea, Morocco, Indonesia, Somalia, Kenya, Egypt, Bosnia and Lebanon in addition to 2210 patients who underwent open heart surgeries by the Campaign's international medical team, Al-Shameri stated. - Emirates News Agency, WAM

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