30,000 kids provided healthcare by UAE charity
November 23rd, 2010 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANSAbu Dhabi, Nov 23 (IANS/WAM) A global healthcare initiative launched by a charity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has treated over 30,000 poor children in nine countries across the world.
The Giving Initiative charity aims to deliver health and medical services to one million underprivileged children across the globe, and has so far treated children through international humanitarian mobile hospitals in the UAE, Morocco, Haiti, Lebanon, Egypt, Bosnia, Syria, Eritrea and Indonesia.
The charity would now focus on preventive health programmes and workshops for developing skills of administrative, medical and technical staff in general medicine and surgery and emergency medicine. It would also start a volunteer programme to help achieve its one-million children target.
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