Dubai: Zulekha Hospital has allocated a Dh2 million annual budget as an endowment to provide free medical checkups in for those in need.

The pledge is part of the hospital’s participation in the “Global Endowment Vision” adopted by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for the revival of endowment as a developmental tool for communities, and in accordance with the decision of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan declaring 2017 as the ‘#Year of Giving’.