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3/29/24, 1:28 PM   PRESSR: Mohammed bin Rashid chairs MBRGI Board of Trustees meeting, announces results of its Year in Review 2023 report …
        A key pillar of MBRGI efforts, Healthcare and Disease Control

        projects focus on containing health problems, fighting infectious

        diseases and epidemics and alleviating the suffering across


        underprivileged communities.




        During 2023, MBRGI helped 9.4 million people who benefited from

        projects under this pillar, with spending growing to AED 209 million,

        up AED 166.5 from 2022 spending.




        Initiatives and accomplishments in this regard included Al Jalila

        Foundation’s launch of a AED 50 million Children’s Fund, which aims

        to fund the treatment of 3,000 children annually at the Al Jalila


        Children’s Hospital.




        Other projects in 2023 included the AED 46 million Oud Metha

        Residential Building Endowment, the proceeds of which will go to

        funding medical education and research and advancing the UAE’s

        healthcare sector.




        Nour Dubai continued to implemented its healthcare and awareness

        campaigns on eye disease and blindness prevention during 2023, and


        helped provide treatment to 9.1 million people suffering from

        Trachoma




        Construction work at the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Center

        continued in 2023, supported by MBRGI’s Hope Makers initiative. The

        Center also saw the establishment of the Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan


        Unit for Cardiac Catheterisation Surgery, which will offer free

        treatment to underprivileged patients from across the Arab world.


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