Emirates Mobile Hospital gives free treatment to 2000 Southern Sudan patients

The Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital has treated 2000 patients in Southern Sudan 40 days after arrival in the underdeveloped region. Free medical treatment were given to those patients since the first-of-a-kind hospital arrived in Southern Sudan last June upon instructions from H.H Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the Ruler's Representative in the Western Region and Chairman of the UAE Red Crescent Authority. Chief Executive of Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital, Executive Director of the Zayed Charity Initiative Dr Adel Al Shamri said programmes at the Mobile Hospital are on schedule. Since going operational in early August, the hospital received and treated 400 children, 900 women and 700 senior people, he added. The cases include thyroid diseases, diabetes, malaria, heart diseases, skin diseases, tropical diseases and others, Al Shamri explained.