Zayed initiative launched to help the poor in Africa

The UAE has opened the doors for medical professionals from across the world to be part of its mobile clinics and hospitals in Africa.
The move, put forward by Zayed Giving Initiative in collaboration with the Emirates Voluntary Center, aims at galvanising voluntary work in alleviating the hardships of the underprivileged, irrespective of religion, skin colour, race or ethnicity.
The initiative-cum campaign is designed to attract doctors and nurses worldwide to join the "The million volunteers campaign" by putting up one million hours in serving the indigent.
UAE cardiologist Dr Adil Al Shamri, CEO of Zayed Giving Initiative had announced the commencement of registration for those who are interested in joining the voluntary work with the Emirati medical team.
Every volunteer should dedicate his experience in his area of specialisation in executing the humanitarian programme which is meant for the poor patients.
Dr Al Shamri, who is also chairman of the UAE Doctors Initiative said the campaign contributes in inculcating the culture of giving among the UAE public community as a whole as well as the non-profitable private organisations. UAE doctors, according to him, have voluntarily put in thousands of hours which helped in alleviating the suffering of more than 3 million children and elderly in the last 14 years, as well as performing more than 8,000 open heart surgeries free of charge.
Dr Al Shamari said the medical caravans will reinforce and increase their duties this year by attracting more medical staff and enable them to render the service to the poor people in Africa. The Zayed initiative had offered over the past years free medical care to the needy patients in several countries including Egypt.
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• Abu Dhabi