A report issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation revealed that the Emirates humanitarian assistance to combat the emerging corona virus (COFED-19) has reached 24 countries, and this total has reached 260 tons of medical supplies and supplies so far to relief 260 thousand medical workers.
The report reviewed the size and nature of medical assistance provided by the UAE to countries affected by the emerging coronavirus, and the efforts made by UAE embassies and consulates in delivering this aid through national aircraft, as well as the efforts made by the Emirates to return nationals of some countries to their home countries, and to save nationals of stranded countries In different regions around the world, and returning them home safely.
The UAE's assistance to the countries of the world included vital medical supplies, including gloves and surgical masks, as well as other personal protective equipment, and thousands of devices, testing units and examination equipment.
The report pointed out that the UAE, through "Etihad Airways", and the United States embassy to the country, succeeded in returning 25 American citizens to their country, who were unable to travel due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, and the UAE embassy in Washington was one of the first donors to the center. The National Pediatrics Center, which launched the first testing site for children and young patients with the emerging coronavirus in Washington.
In Britain, the UAE has turned «Excel London», which is the largest exhibition and conference place in the British capital, and wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, into an emergency field hospital for the treatment of patients with coronavirus, and the new facility called NHS Hospital can accommodate 4000 beds, and provides a group Comprehensive medical support facilities for people living with HIV.
To embody the UAE’s constant keenness on joint cooperation with the countries of the world to confront the spread of the new Corona virus epidemic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has taken all necessary measures to facilitate the evacuation of nationals of brotherly and friendly countries who have not been able to return to their homes, after suspending all flights to and from a country The Emirates, in coordination with the embassies and consulates of representative missions accredited to the country.
After allowing flights to cross through the airports of the UAE, and during a period of two weeks, 127 air evacuations of foreign nationals have been completed so far, equivalent to the evacuation of a total of 22,900 people, and 27 evacuations are under way that can be increased during the next few days .
«World Health»: 85% of medical aid sourced from the UAE
The World Health Organization praised the efforts of the UAE to support international cooperation to combat the new Corona virus, especially the role of the International City for Humanitarian Services in Dubai.
The organization pointed out that the city set records, after it distributed more than a million pairs of examination gloves and surgical masks, and more than 100 thousand surgical gowns, equivalent to more than 85% of the organization's response to global medical goods in order to eliminate the epidemic so far.
The WHO representative and the leader of the emergency operations team, Robert Blanchard, told EURO News that the WHO sent personal protection equipment and laboratory supplies to 64 countries through 100 shipments so far, to all areas of the organization from the International City of Services Humanity in Dubai.