A group of UAE medics volunteered 800 hours to serve poor children and elderly patients in several Tanzanian villages by working in the UAE-Tanzanian mobile hospital, which provides diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive services in various parts of Tanzania.

The UAE’s medical campaign in Tanzania coincides with the declaration of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for 2017 to be the Year of Giving, as a response to an official invitation from the Tanzanian government and as an initiative from the Zayed Giving Initiative, the Saudi-German Hospital and the Dar Al Ber Society.

UAE cardiac surgeon Dr. Adel Al Shameri, CEO of the Zayed Giving Initiative, and Head of UAE Medics, said that the Zayed Giving Initiative aims to recruit UAE medics and enable them to volunteer locally and internationally to serve poor patients and reduce their suffering, in harmony with the humanitarian values of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and in compliance with the charitable connections that were built by UAE citizens.

He praised the UAE volunteers of the Zayed Giving Initiative, who were able to reduce the suffering of poor people all over the world during previous years, by volunteering more than five million hours of their time in many creative voluntary initiatives.

Moza Al Otaibi, Zayed Giving Initiative Board Member, invited UAE citizens to volunteer and contribute in various humanitarian activities to strengthen the UAE’s leading position among the world’s countries, under the UAE leadership.