Abu Dhabi, July 09:The second UAE relief plane, carrying the Emirates Medical Emergency Response team, has arrived in south Sudan capital, Juba.
As per the instructions of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Representative of Ruler in Western Region and Chairman of the Red Crescent Authority, the team composed of 14 administrators and technicians, was dispatched to Juba to prepare Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital to provide curative, surgical, preventive services to the patients and needy in Sudan for four months.
Khadeem Al Daraei, head of the team, said the team includes technician and specialists in the installation of equipment of the mobile hospital, adding that they had received training from the Emirates National Emergency Medical Response Academy.
Dr Adel Al Shameri, executive director of the Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital, said the initiative of the mobile hospital “is the first of its kind in the world”, adding that it comes in line with the directives of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and in translation of the vision of Shaikh Hamdan, to activate the voluntary programmes locally and internationally.
—Agencies