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The project consists of constructing four residential villas. From the source
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The Endowments and Minors Affairs Foundation in Dubai announced the start of the construction of the Health Endowment, with contributions amounting to nine million dirhams, the proceeds of which are to support and finance medical research related to disease control, support innovations in medical devices to treat diseases and epidemics, build research centers and clinics according to international standards, and support and assist patients in need. treatment.
The project comes in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, during the month of April, to establish a health endowment that supports the urgent response and achieves a preemptive step for any potential health repercussions or crises, especially after it has proven an epidemic. The emerging corona virus is the importance of early diagnosis of diseases and epidemics, and its role in protecting the individual and society, and avoiding the social and economic damages that result from them.
The project is being implemented in implementation of the partnership agreement signed "remotely" between the Foundation and the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and it is built on an area of 7200 square feet that is endowed for the general public and registered in the name of the Foundation in Al-Bada area.
The Foundation explained that the project consists of constructing four residential villas, each villa consisting of a ground floor and a first floor, and the construction and construction costs and the value of the plot of land are estimated at nine million dirhams, as a contribution from the white hands.
The Foundation’s Secretary-General, Ali Al-Mutawa, said, “The new health endowment comes in recognition of the foundation’s role in the development and advancement of society, as a tributary of development, and its responsibility towards society, especially in the health sector.”
He added that the proceeds of the endowment will be spent on motivating students to conduct specialized studies and research, supporting them in inventing medical devices to combat diseases and epidemics, building research centers and studies, and private clinics equipped with the latest technologies, and supporting and assisting patients in need of treatment.
He added that the endowment will support effective government efforts to confront current and future outbreaks of epidemics and diseases, while adopting an approach that ensures efficiency in setting support priorities and working side by side with the concerned authorities.
Al-Mutawa added that part of the endowment proceeds will be allocated to provide health assistance to the working health authorities, and to support research and laboratory tests conducted by health centers and colleges specializing in medical studies.
For his part, Director of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. Amer Ahmed Sharif, said, “The (Corona) crisis reminded us that the success and growth of any society is associated with the success and effectiveness of its health sector, and the health sector in the UAE receives priority and great attention from the leadership, and the endowment has a role. In the growth and prosperity of vital sectors such as health and education ».
He noted the establishment of a charitable endowment to spend its proceeds to strengthen the health care sector by supporting the scientific research system in the country, building specialized centers for research and studies based on the best international standards, developing new and innovative treatments to combat diseases and epidemics, and making them available to patients in need of such treatments.
Quick response
Both the Endowments and Minors Affairs Foundation and the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences thanked the standing and donors, who responded quickly to support the health endowment, so that it could see the light soon.
They emphasized that this support is not strange for the UAE community, which always contributes to supporting humanitarian projects and financing endowment projects, believing in the endowment's role in the development and advancement of society.
The endowment is held in partnership with the Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine, with contributions of nine million dirhams from the white hands.