UAE provides health care to 4,000 people in Sudan

More than 4,000 women and children in Sudan have received medical treatment under the Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign.

Volunteer doctors from the UAE and Sudan provided treatment, diagnostic services and preventive care to rural areas, touring in 20 mobile clinics and field hospitals, state news agency Wam reported.

The campaign, All of us are our Mother Fatima, ended in Sudan’s River Nile state, where medical centres are understaffed and malaria is a problem, after more than six weeks.

It began on March 12 as part of the Year of Zayed initiative, and aimed to honour the regional humanitarian work ordered by the Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed.

It is one of the humanitarian initiatives launched by Sheikha Fatima, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union and Mother of the Nation.

It ran in Sudan under the patronage of that country’s first lady, Widad Babiker, in partnership with the Zayed Giving Initiative and Sanad Charitable Organisation.

Noura Al Suwaidi, director of the General Women’s Union, said the campaign was a model for voluntary work and an extension of Sheikha Fatima’s work to empower women and children in the Middle East.

Last month, Sheikha Fatima donated US$1 million (Dh3.6m) to the Fund for Refugee Women to mark Mother’s Day and called on the international community to meet its humanitarian responsibility to women and children fleeing violence.