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4/3/24, 8:56 AM 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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