ERC launches first phase of vaccination programme for Syrian refugees in Jordanian camps
AMMAN, 24th May, 2021 (WAM) The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has launched the first phase of vaccination programme for Syrian refugees in the Jordanian camps to help the country confronts the coronavirus pandemic.
The programme aims to vaccinate 12,000 refugees in the Emirati-Jordanian camp of Mrajeeb Al Fhood and camps of Zaatari, Al Azraq and Al Hadiqa with the Sinopharm vaccine.
The move is in implementation of the directives of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) and the Honorary Chairwoman of the ERC and is being implemented in coordination with the UAE s embassy in Amman, the Department of Health - Abu Dhabi and the Jordanian Ministry of Health.
Sheikha Fatima tells Emirates Red Crescent to fund treatment of Syrian girl
6 hours ago The family thanked Sheikha Fatima for the kind gesture, which saved Julie’s life.
Her Highness 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), Honorary Chairperson of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), and the “Mother of the Nation,” directed the ERC to pay for the medical treatment of a Syrian girl named Julie, who was suffering from a life-threatening rare disease.
Sheikha Fatima directed the ERC to provide Julie, who was suffering from spinal muscular atrophy disease, with the highest levels of healthcare and arrange for her medical treatment in the UAE.
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Emirates Red Crescent starts first phase of COVID vaccination programme for refugees, displaced people in Jordan, Iraq
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ABU DHABI, 15th May, 2021 (WAM) The Emirates Red Crescent has launched the first phase of a vaccination programme for tens of thousands of refugees and displaced persons in Jordan and Iraq as part of the medical assistance provided by the UAE s primary humanitarian arm to help the two nations confront the COVID-19 pandemic and to speed up the recovery drive.
This is in implementation of the directives of H.H. 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), the Honorary Chairwoman of the ERC, under the follow-up of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, (Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent).
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