Abu Dhabi, May 22nd, 2010 (WAM)--Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital has been ordered to move to Mysore area in Morocco to provide curative, surgical, training and preventive services under supervision of elite of Emirati, Moroccan and international doctors and surgeons in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of Health and the Sheikh Zayed Specialised Hospital in Rabat.
The move follows the instructions of HH Sheikh Hamadan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Representative of Ruler in Western Region and Chairman of the Red Crescent Authority (RCA). Sheikh Hamdan stressed that the directives of the UAE leadership always call for helping the needy and disadvantaged people across the globe through dispatching aid and basic requirements to alleviate their suffering. The mobile hospital initiative is a complementary to the UAE world international humanitarian initiatives, which benefited millions of patients across the globe. The impact of the Zayed Charity Initiative and sustained efforts of Emirati philanthropists is obvious in many world countries. Charity convoys were dispatched and hospitals, health centres and community centres bearing the name of the late great Arab leader Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, were constructed in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Yemen, Mauritania, Sudan, Kenya, Eritrea and other countries. Khadeem Al Daraei, head of work team of Emirates Mobile Hospital, said the initiative is the first of it kind worldwide, adding that history will mark for UAE its pioneer role in adopting such a role to ease suffering of needy elderly and child patients. Emirati Heart Surgeon, Executive Director of the Mobile Hospital Dr Adel Al Shamri, said the hospital is being operated within studied plans year long in coordination with the Health Ministries of host countries and in partnership with public institutions, private corporations and non profitable organisations in model cooperation among them. He added that after Mysore area in Morocco the hospital will move to Syria and Lebanon to spend four months in each country. Shamri commended the cooperation displayed by the Moroccan Ministry of Health to work as a team in the remote areas, adding that the supervision and follow up team has been set up. For his part, Prof. Amin Al Husseini, director of Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Rabat, said the initiative reflects the depth of UAE-Moroccan ties, which were set by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the late Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The mobile hospital has treated over 6, 000 patients in South Sudan and responded to urgent international emergency in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake there. It provided urgent medial supplies in cooperation with the RCA and the national care programme. The medial supplies benefited over 11, 000 people.Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2010.
