KHARTOUM,Mar 14 (WAM) – Wedad Babiker, Chairperson of the Sanad Charity Foundation and wife of the Sudanese President, has inaugurated the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikha Fatima Field Hospital for Women and Children in Sudan.
The hospital is part of an initiative launched by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF). It aims to provide the best treatment, diagnostic, preventive and surgical services for women and children in Sudan and the rest of Africa, under the supervision of volunteer doctors from the UAE and Sudan.
The launch of the hospital, under the slogan, “We are all our Mother Fatima,” is part of the Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme, and is a joint initiative between the Zayed Giving Initiative, the GWU and the Sanad Charity Foundation, in partnership with the Dar Al Ber Society, Sharjah Charity House and the Saudi-German Hospitals Group.
It is also an innovative partnership in the specialist area of humanitarian medical action, which aims to find realistic medical solutions and help ease the pain and suffering of women and children, in line with the directives of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The hospital represents progress in providing community health services through field and mobile medical services, and is equipped with the latest medical supplies, including reception, emergency, ICU and lab units, as well as a pharmacy.
The free medical services provided by the volunteer medical teams and the mobile field hospital will achieve progress in community medical action in various Sudanese villages. (WAM) (END/2018)