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MWL delivers health insurance to 15,000 Sudanese orphans

- RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR.

RIYADH: The Muslim World League (MWL) recently delivered health insurance cards to 15,000 Sudanese orphans and their families at a cost of about SR2,365,000 ($630,557).

The delivery of the health insurance cards was in partnershi­p with the Sudanese Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), Okaz newspaper reported.

The MWL is the parent organizati­on of the Internatio­nal Islamic Relief Organizati­on (IIRO), with Hassan Shaabar as secretary-general.

Shaabar said that his organizati­on has paid great attention to orphans, with the organizati­on currently sponsoring more than 78,000 orphans in 35 countries, supervised by around the world.

For his part, Hamid Rifai, director of the IIRO in Sudan, said that the health insurance program included orphans and their families in the states of Khartoum, North Kordofan, South Darfur, Kassala, Jazira, Gedaref, White Nile, Red Sea, Nile River, and Sennar, among others.

Sudanese Minister of Social Security and Developmen­t Mashaaf Al-Dulab stressed that the IIRO is the first organizati­on to guarantee health insurance for orphans in partnershi­p with the SHIF. He also called on all charitable organizati­ons and institutio­ns to work in this field to help improve health services, especially among orphans. its offices

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