From: Yemane Natnael (yemane_natnael@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2008 - 13:39:37 EDT
Generous Hands conducts delicate surgeries in Eritrea
05 October, 2008
Surgeons of ''The Generous Hands Initiative", a UAE medical charity
organisation, has operated on scores of poor children in Eritrea who
were suffering from congenital deformities, eye diseases and injuries
caused by accidents.
The
team, which is made up of an elite of world prominent surgeons and
pediatricians, is visiting Asmara to conduct these sensitive operations
at the invitation of the Eritrean health minister.
Flock of
underprivileged children from all parts of Eritrea have turned out to
the Initiative's centre to benefit from the curative, surgical and
preventive services. The Initiative, which was launched recently under
directives by UAE Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Red
Crescent Authority H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan under the
patronage of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, seeks to provide
healthcare assistance to poor patients in various parts of the world.
The
nine-day mission in Eritrea strives to ease suffering of children from
poor families who have been infected with a broad range of physical
abnormalities existing from birth in the respiratory, reproductive and
digestive systems.
A mother of a child who underwent a surgery
yesterday said :'' Our financial situation doesn't allow us to get
adequate treatment to our child ...... it's painful to sit idle and see
children suffering from congenital deformities.
''Such a chance
comes only once in a lifetime ......... there may be hundreds of
thousands of children who are suffering from different diseases and are
dreaming of some one who comes forward to extend a hand of help as I
dreamed,' she added.
She lauded the Initiative as setting a world example of humanitarian voluntary work.
''The Initiative is no alien to the generous UAE,'' she said.
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