Charity builds 25 clinics in 5 countries
dubai — The Dubai Charity Association, committed to vulnerable people locally and abroad, built 25 clinics in five countries in 2017.
These include Uganda, Congo, Mali, Malawi, and the Philippines, according to Ahmad Mohammed Mismaar, secretarygeneral of the association.
“We have also carried out healthcare projects in 17 other countries, including Albania, China, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Tajikistan, Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
These are added to some African countries, spanning Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger, Djibouti, Ghana, Mali and Malawi, he added. “These clinics or medical centres were so helpful to a big segment of indigent people at these countries.”
Thorough studies had earlier been done to build these clinics at the right places so as to provide healthcare services to more needy people, in collaboration with the bodies concerned there, he explained.
“The association has also contributed wheelchairs to elderly people and people of determination, in addition to modified motorbikes for the disabled.”
The Dubai Charity Association has further funded several eye surgeries for destitute patients, Mismaar said. “Ambulance tricycles, ambulances, special vehicles for the medical care of the elderly and the people of determination, and prescription eyeglasses were also provided to eligible patients.”
These services have significantly improved the life of so many poor people who could not afford it, he added.
“Some of those people were in a dire need for life-saving medicines and long-term treatment, and those were also taken care of with the help of philanthropists here.”
Some villages were provided with clinics, while some elderly people were assisted with home-based medical care, and some patients were subjected to heart operations and regular dialysis procedures. ahmedshaaban@khaleejtimes.com
The association has also contributed wheelchairs to the elderly and people of determination.” Ahmad Mohammed Mismaar, secretary-general of the association