The total amount of humanitarian aid provided by the Health Fund office at the Dubai Health Authority from the beginning of this year until the end of last May reached (5,000,000) dirhams, benefiting (400) patients of various nationalities suffering from heart diseases, cancer, eyes, and others. From the deseases.
Salem Mohammed Bin Lahej, Director of the Health Fund Office at the Dubai Health Authority said that the authority continued to provide humanitarian services to its needy patients despite the exceptional circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, through its programs and initiatives represented in the “Help” program, the “Save the Heart” initiative, and the voluntary clinic Latifa Hospital for Women and Children, and other initiatives targeting hardship cases of patients registered with Dubai Health Authority hospitals.
Ibn Lahej pointed to the free delivery service for medicines that the Health Fund Office continued in cooperation with the Department of Pharmacy Services in the authority for the pathological cases registered in the fund, especially heart patients, patients with sclerosis, eyes, cancer, and kidneys, in order to save time and effort on patients and achieve their happiness in obtaining Medicines without going to the authority’s hospitals and health centers to prevent transmission.
Ibn Lahej explained the ease of procedures for benefiting from the fund’s programs and initiatives, which are represented in the patient’s request for assistance to the social service department in the hospital and the case study by the department, and transferred to the Health Fund office to re-examine the case and ensure that it meets the conditions of assistance and take the appropriate decision in the type and size of assistance, Inform the patient whether the assistance is partial or total.
He explained that during the last Ramadan month, and through an initiative: "You like him", the Fund distributed more than (21) thousand breakfast meals to the employees of the Dubai Health Authority in the category of employment and security, in cooperation with the Beit Al Khair Association.
The Director of the Health Fund Office at the Dubai Health Authority thanked all the strategic partners supporting the Fund's humanitarian programs and initiatives, including the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai, the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation, charities at the state level, and individual donors from different nationalities.
He pointed to the goals and the important role that the Fund plays in creating and implementing programs supporting remedial projects and supervising them and contributing to social integration and community happiness and reimbursement of treatment costs for insolvent patients and the provision of humanitarian and charitable services in cooperation with the relevant institutions in the country.