A group of senior UAE doctors, part of the "Doctors of Giving" organisation, have treated hundreds of children and elderly patients in mobile clinics and hospitals during the first day of their volunteer mission in Ajman.
The campaign aims to detect cardiac and chronic diseases and raise awareness about the best treatments and prevention methods, in line with the wise leadership’s call to make 2017 the Year of Giving and as a joint volunteer initiative from the Zayed Giving Initiative, Dar Al Ber Society, Sharjah Charity International and the Saudi-German Hospital, constituting a creative model for medical volunteer community work.
Reem Othman, Humanitarian Work Ambassador, stressed the desire of the Zayed Giving Initiative to adopt community initiatives to reduce the rate of cardiac diseases through programmes of early detection, treatment of causes and lifestyle changes for healthy hearts, by providing a package of diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical and preventive programmes through the specialised mobile and field clinics of the Zayed Giving Initiative.
Dr. Adel Al Shameri, CEO of the Zayed Giving Initiative, Chairman of Emirates Programme for Community and Specialised Volunteering and Emirates Doctors President, said that the UAE volunteer medical convoys are supervised by a range of senior doctors and consultants, adding that the convoys include fully-equipped mobile clinics to perform all the required analysis and tests for the early detection of cardiac diseases.
He praised the efforts of the Ajman Executive Council to enable volunteer doctors of the Zayed Giving Initiative to provide the best diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive services to different segments of society in the emirate.
He also highlighted that the current phase of the volunteer medical team’s work in Ajman is a completion of the programme’s first phase throughout the nation, in which more than 500,000 citizens and residents have benefited.

Source: WAM