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The target, however, is to raise over a million dirhams within a year as voluntary contributions from 14 international healthcare companies and charities across the country.
The initiative, being supported by the World Health Organisation, is the first in the world and makes the UAE the 18th country to mass produce the most used medical device. Currently, 11 factories in the UAE are producing medical devices for local use as well as for export purposes. Initially, the UAE has agreed to provide disposable syringes to Nepal and Tanzania following a WHO report highlighting poor healthcare services in these countries. The UAE has pledged to provide eight million syringes in total.
“The idea is to provide cheap, safe and reliable medical devices to people in the developing world,” said Dr Amin Al Amiri, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Health.
A fund supported by the private sector and administered by the UAE government will purchase these devices from existing manufacturers and make them available to the needy countries where they will be used in place of the lesser safe disposable syringes currently in use for therapeutic injections. Statistics show that one person dies every 24 seconds in the world due to unsafe injections which cause 1.3 million deaths each year.
The Middle East has the world’s worst practices with regard to injection use, where three out of the 4.2 injections used per person per year are unsafe.
Besides reuse of syringes, other problems include unsafe collection and disposal of syringes leading to the spread of infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B and C and HIV.
The ministry and the WHO have also agreed to deliver the purchases to the target countries through the UN headquarters located in the Dubai City for Humanitarian Services.
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