UAE relief for 300 Morocco children with heart ailments

Ali Salem Al Kaabi, UAE Ambassador to Morocco, has launched Pulses, an initiative in Marrakech city to treat children with heart ailments.

Pulses is aimed at examining 300 children with congenital heart deformities and performing more than 80 surgeries on poor patients.

Al Kaabi praised the initiative being implemented on behalf of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment to reduce the suffering of heart patients.

He stated that the humanitarian and charitable activities of the establishment and its medical campaign in Morocco reflect the strength and depth of relations between the two countries and confirm the importance of the cooperation implemented on the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai.

Al Kaabi said that the UAE will always support Morocco in all its humanitarian, development and medical needs in line with the aspirations of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco.

Dr. Obaid Al Jassem, Head of the Emirati medical team, said that the initiative, launched in the UAE in 2007 and then in other countries in 2012, is aimed at not only providing medical support to children with congenital heart deformities but also financially supporting their families in line with the strategy of WHO, the World Heart Federation and the UAE Government.

Since the launch of Pulses, 37 such campaigns have been initiated inside the UAE and outside in countries such as Sudan, Egypt, Mauritania, Tajikistan, India, Ethiopia, and more than 5,000 children have been examined with 1,047 receiving treatment.