The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Initiatives Foundation announced that its programs, projects and initiatives within the axis of health care and disease control were able to reach 7.5 million people during the year 2019, while the amount of spending on initiatives in this field reached 118 million dirhams.
The health care hub is one of the most important pillars of the work of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Initiatives International, as the Foundation is keen to invest in combating common and serious diseases that impede societal development, and providing therapeutic support to the most vulnerable groups in societies, especially the elderly, women and children.
Within the framework of this axis, the Al Jalila Foundation to support education and medical research and the Noor Dubai Foundation are the main pillars of the work of the parent institution, as Noor Dubai specializes in the field of eye health and combating blindness, while the Al Jalila Foundation works to develop therapeutic capabilities and provide medical support inside and outside the UAE, in addition to To support medical research and studies.
The year 2019 witnessed the expansion of the focus of the initiatives of the Healthcare and Disease Control Center to include support for research, medical studies and clinical trials of treatments and medicines, and strengthening the health and preventive healthcare architecture in many developing and needing societies around the world.
Health is a top priority:
Saeed Al-Attar, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives, said: “Health is the safety valve for societies, and health and preventive initiatives and projects concerned with combating diseases and supporting the medical sectors in less fortunate societies constitute the core of the work of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Initiatives International within a vision that seeks to Creating healthy environments, which contributes to achieving sustainable development and enhancing societal stability. "
He stressed by saying: "As His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai said, health today is ahead of the rest of the priorities to lead the economy and politics ... and the crisis that the world is living today due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus epidemic is driving us from now In order to invest more in our medical programs and initiatives, locally and internationally, according to a future perspective, through which we will seek to investigate health challenges in the context of a global strategic partnership with a number of medical, research and scientific institutions and centers, which is what the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation has already begun.
And the perfume added: "The values of human solidarity embodied by the UAE by supporting the health sector in countries that lack resources and capabilities, are a reflection of the values that the leadership of the Emirates has established throughout its history, and that attention to human health is a top priority."
Treatment, rehabilitation and empowerment:
In this regard, the Executive Director of the Nord Dubai Foundation, Dr. Manal Tarim, confirmed that: “The Noor Dubai Foundation is one of the unique institutions of its kind in the area of eye health, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.” Noting that “the light of Dubai’s message that I set for itself from the beginning is fighting Blindness in all its forms, within a vision that seeks to create a world free from the causes of blindness, by taking preventive and proactive measures and providing therapeutic and surgical intervention for the needy groups in the world, especially in fragile areas that lack basic treatment resources.
Dr. added. Tarim: "Our goals in Noor Dubai go beyond optical treatment to rehabilitation and empowerment, by helping patients who regain their ability to see to integrate into their environments and restore their role in their societies as productive, non-idle or idle powers, and thus reduce unemployment and the spread of poverty, which is the basis Family and societal stability, "she explained by saying:" By helping one person to regain his eyesight, you can save an entire family from poverty and destitution if this person is the sole breadwinner for the family, or you can preserve a young future if the patient is a child who can be left out of his educational achievement. " Because of his blindness or any disease He threatened his ability to vision. "
She noted d. Honor the vital human partnerships and alliances that Noor Dubai holds with a large number of international and international organizations and organizations that helped it implement many campaigns, programs and treatment and rehabilitation camps, and expand its treatment services to include the largest number of beneficiaries around the world.
Supporting medical studies and research:
For her part, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Jalila Foundation, member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, Dr. Raja Issa Al Gurg, said: "The Foundation of Al Jalila is one of the most important pillars of the axis of health care and disease control within the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Initiatives Foundation, within the framework of a systematic vision based on developing treatment programs with A sustainable impact that changes the lives of millions of people for the better. "
And Dr. Al Gurg Al Jalila Foundation is keen to support the efforts of international organizations in combating diseases that affect women and children in particular, such as tetanus, as Al Jalila is one of the most important strategic partners of UNICEF in this field.
Dr. added. Al-Gurg: "A major part of the focus of the Al Jalila Foundation's work is to support medical studies and research and to invent medical treatments and inventions ... We recently launched the political course of the Initial Research Grants Program that we dedicated this year to the investigative, curative and preventive studies of the emerging coronavirus (Coved epidemic - 19) And other viral diseases in the future. "
Al-Gurg concluded: "All of our programs and initiatives in the Al Jalila Foundation aim to build healthy societies, by mapping the most important diseases that threaten human health and developing integrated strategies to address them, especially in fragile societies", pointing to the institution's role as well in contributing to developing medical capabilities and expertise and supporting investment In research and medical scientific programs in the Emirates.
International Alliance for the Protection of Eyes:
Under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, Noor Dubai managed to reach 6 million patients during the year 2019 by helping them provide treatment for trachoma, which affects the eye and threatens blindness, in conjunction with the institution’s joining the International Alliance to Combat Trachoma Its membership includes 34 organizations and institutions concerned with disease control around the globe.
In cooperation with the World Health Organization, Noor Dubai has continued to implement the SAFE program for treating trachoma patients, and has performed surgeries for more than 16,000 patients, out of a total of millions of people who have benefited from the efforts of the Noor Dubai Foundation, which puts at the forefront of its vision work for a world free of blinding trachoma. .
Therapeutic camps:
Noor Dubai has continued its goals of achieving a sustainable health impact through prevention, treatment and awareness programs and initiatives that it implemented during the year 2019 inside and outside the country. It provided its medical services in the field of eye examination and the provision of necessary treatments in the lowest-income societies in Asia and Africa, where it reached 20,486 people who benefited from its services, and it performed 2,158 operations in four treatment camps set up in Senegal and Bangladesh.
Eye examination:
And at the country level, Noor Dubai has run mobile eye clinics across the Emirates as part of its annual initiatives to enhance awareness of all segments of society of the importance of maintaining eye health, and provided an eye examination service that benefited 9,200 people inside the country during the year 2019.
pulses:
In addition, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Work, in cooperation with the Dubai Health Authority, continued its work within the humanitarian medical “Heartbeat” initiative to treat children's hearts, as it provided for the treatment of children with heart conditions within the UAE, and around the world; 160 children, including in Tajikistan, 100 in Morocco, and one in Bangladesh, with a total of 261 children during 2019.
1.4 million vaccines:
In cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), during the year 2019, the Jalila Foundation continued its efforts to eradicate tetanus in mothers and newborns by providing 1.4 million vaccines worldwide.
The Foundation also launched the fifth annual session of the "Pink October" campaign in partnership with the "Breast Friends Association", and organized 400 activities to support breast cancer treatment and scientific research related to it, and provided material support to 235 patients to help them and their families to pay the costs of treatment, which in all cases reached 18 million dirhams .
Support network:
In the context of supporting children of determination, the Galilea Foundation, which is affiliated with the Sixth Annual Program, aimed at supporting the network of support surrounding children of concern at the family and community level by providing training that provides psychological support to parents and teachers who carry out the affairs of children of determination. 234 parents and 63 teachers participated in the program this year.
Scholarships and research studies:
To enable studies and research in the medical, therapeutic and pharmaceutical fields, the Jalila Foundation has allocated 4.9 million dirhams in the form of research grants to fund 38 studies looking at cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes and mental health.
The Foundation also provided medical scholarships at a total cost of more than 1.4 million dirhams to graduates and students in the country during 2019, including 20 scholarships within graduate and undergraduate programs in five local and international medical universities and colleges.
Arab humanitarian project:
In addition, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives Foundation has adopted the support of an Arab humanitarian project through the Makers of Hope initiative whose proceeds were allocated for its closing ceremony to support the construction of Professor Majdi Yaqoub Hospital for charitable heart disease in Egypt, and provide it with medical equipment and technical supplies, to be the largest of its kind In the Arab world, as it provides treatment services to the poor and needy of heart patients for free.
And while the closing ceremony for the Hope-Makers gathered contributions from institutions and companies in the UAE with a value of 44 million dirhams to build and equip the hospital, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai announced a contribution to support the hospital equal to the total contributions of donors, so the amount of donations exceeded 88 million dirhams.
light of hope:
One of the beneficiaries of the initiatives of the Health Care and Disease Control Center is the 35-year-old Pakistani, Sirwar, who works as a bus driver for a company in the UAE. His right eye was subjected to an injury that left him with difficulties in seeing while he was in his youth, as a result of which he performed two surgeries to repair the cornea and eradicate the vitreous, without either of them succeeding in fixing his eyesight, so he continued his life, relying on his left eye, potentially the hardships of life until the vagina came when With the Noor Dubai Foundation.
After that, Sirwar underwent all the necessary tests, before he decided to undergo surgery to remove the silicone oil that was placed inside his left eye during previous surgery and to cultivate a secondary lens to improve his level of vision. Although the cost of the operation was not high, Sirwar was unable to do it at his own expense, so Noor Dubai undertook the operation to restore his eyesight, and the light of hope illuminated his life, practiced his profession and provided himself and his family with a decent decent life.