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Dubai: Dubai Health Authority held several activities to mark Zayed humanitarian Day on Thursday.
The annual event is held on Ramadan 19 in memory of the founding father of the UAE, Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
The occasion, marked in the Islamic calendar, coincided with July 17 this year.
As part of the activities, Noor Dubai Foundation held an eye-screening campaign for labourers in Al Quoz area.
The screening was conducted through the Foundation’s mobile eye clinic that is sponsored by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). It includes a reception area and two rooms for examination of vision and refractive errors.
DHA Director-General Eisa Al Maidour, who is also chairman of the Foundation, said the free screening programme began on July 2 and will run until July 22.
Al Maidour said: “The screening programme includes provision of spectacles for labourers with impaired vision. Our aim is to reach out to as many labourers as possible during this screening programme and presently we are able to screen 200 to 250 cases per day. We also educate the labourers on how to take care of their eyes.”
Several other programmes were held at the DHA to mark this initiative, including the distribution of Ramadan packages to staff members and patients in need.
DHA also provided daily iftar packages for 400 cleaners and security personnel working across the various entities of the DHA and distributed schoolbags to children in need.
In addition to these initiatives, DHA primary health-care physicians and team members from the moussadah committee visited the homes of 300 elderly patients and distributed wheelchairs and blood pressure monitoring machines.
