It included providing medicines to people with dangerous diseases and various health initiatives

Dubai Health Authority provides humanitarian aid worth 67.2 million dirhams within 6 months

Dubai Health Authority has provided 19 drug support programs for people with serious and chronic diseases.

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The Dubai Health Authority revealed that it provided humanitarian aid worth 67 million, 273 thousand and 944 dirhams, during the first half of this year, through nine health initiatives, and 19 drug support programs, benefiting 1641 people of 62 nationalities, according to statements by the Director of the Health Fund in the Authority. Salem bin Lahej.

Bin Lahej explained to "Emirates Today" that among the most prominent programs implemented by the authority to help patients are nine initiatives: "Save a life, the psychiatric clinic, save a heart, the eye initiative, the Thalassemia initiative, change their lives to treat cancer patients, an assistance program, new Muslims, equipment and devices." Medical”, which benefited 1,469 citizens and residents in the Emirate of Dubai from 62 different nationalities.

With regard to drug support programs, Bin Lahej said that the authority provided 19 drug support programs for people with serious and chronic diseases, at a value of 40 million and 523 thousand and 428 dirhams, during the first half of this year, which included medicines for the treatment of chronic and serious diseases, benefiting 172 insolvent patients. .

He stated that the drug support programs that were implemented based on international standards in partnership with the Pharmacy Department, and to ensure the sustainability of these programs, have been cooperating with a number of pharmaceutical companies through the global Axios company, associations and charitable institutions.

He pointed out that the authority has concluded a number of memoranda of understanding, and has documented its partnership with all concerned parties from institutions, bodies and associations, within the framework of its keenness to promote charitable and humanitarian work that characterizes the Emirati society, and to provide the necessary support to insolvent patients in particular, in addition to its keenness to include Its organizational structure includes a special fund, the “Health Fund”, to represent it in all charitable, humanitarian and community works that it pays great attention to, and is working to expand its circle to increase the number of beneficiaries of these noble works.

Bin Lahej added that the authority has worked to expand the scope of partnerships with all stakeholders, to serve patients and support the authority’s charitable and humanitarian orientations, which are witnessing development in the interest of insolvent patients, which has achieved a tangible leap in the quality of medical services provided to this category, in light of partnerships with Charitable and humanitarian organizations, associations and institutions.

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