The UAE has handed over to Egypt on Tuesday 78 fully-equipped clinics in 23 governorates to serve 780,000 people in 78 remote villages as part of a social and economic development programme. The projects also include 50,016 houses for low-income Egyptian families, 100 schools with 1,668 classrooms across 18 governorates to serve 67,000 students. The handover event, which took place at the Egyptian Prime Minister, Ebrahim Mahlab’s office on Tuesday, saw Dr Sultan Bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Chairman of the Coordination Office of the UAE-funded Development Projects in Egypt, signing off on the completed UAE projects along with four Egyptian ministers. The completion of the projects comes on the eve of Egypt’s much anticipated inauguration of the New Suez Canal on Thursday, in which the UAE has also played a significant supporting role.
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00:12When someone was sick or injured, we couldn't find a doctor or a health unit.
00:17Before we could reach the health unit, the situation was deteriorating.
00:21Now we are going to the new health unit run by the United Arab Emirates.
00:25May God protect them and their children.
00:27This is a resident doctor and a nurse with me.
00:31There are specialists in all fields.
00:34Thank God, we only need 24 hours to receive the patient.
00:39This is a child who was playing on the street.
00:42He fell on his legs and his mother took him to the hospital.
00:45We were worried that he might have a fracture, but after we found out,
00:49he didn't have a fracture. It was just a simple leg fracture.
00:52We took him to the hospital and the nurse treated him.
00:55He will be fine in three days.
01:00The nurse provides 80% of the needs for the patients here in the country.
01:04If he had a fracture, he would have to go to the hospital.
01:07Or he would take a car and go to the hospital.
01:10God wants us to have a successful health unit.
01:14This is the family health unit in the village of Sint-El-Yis,
01:17in the health department.
01:19It is part of the United Arab Emirates development project
01:22that includes the establishment of 78 family health units
01:25and a family health center in 23 governorates.
01:28By following our work in these units,
01:31more than 17% of children suffer from malnutrition.
01:35More than 20% meet the needs of these units,
01:40and more than 80,000 people serve in the benefitted villages
01:43and the surrounding areas.
01:45Today, we have advanced devices in the factory.
01:48We have a kinetic device and another device,
01:51which is the Sewi Lab Cell Counter,
01:54which is an electronic blood counter.
01:57This device shows the blood count in about 30 seconds.
02:01We provide services for the family,
02:04for the children,
02:06for feeding,
02:08for sanitizing,
02:10for receiving,
02:12and for first aid.
02:14I came here today to see my daughter,
02:17and the service here is very good.
02:19We didn't believe that this village would have one health unit,
02:24and it was built in the best time possible.
02:28It is a wonderful place.
02:31We thank the Egyptian Ministry of Health,
02:35we thank the Emirates,
02:38we thank the army,
02:40and we thank President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
02:43We thank Sheikh Khalifa.
02:45May God bless him.
02:47May God give him health.
02:49May God bless Sheikh Khalifa and Sheikh Zayed.
02:52Long live Egypt! Long live the Emirates!
02:54Long live Egypt! Long live the Emirates!