Healthcare
Ministry of Health and Prevention Launches Help Me Hear Initiative for Children With Hearing Loss
UAE, 18 January, 2017 -The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has introduced the launch of the 'Help Me Hear' campaign in an interview kept in combination with the Emirates Otorhinolaryngology Audiology and Communication Conditions Congress which was attended by H.E. Dr. Hussein Abdul Rahman AL Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Centers and Clinics and Chairman of the Congress. The campaign was created to assist address the needs of children with hearing loss, under the structure of the Ministry's initiatives for 'Year Of Giving 2017.'
H.E. Dr. Al Rand stated: "Today, we are recognized to reveal the launch of the Ministry's 'Help Me Listen to' initiative created to help children from the age of 6 months to 4 years with hearing loss. This falls in line with initiatives enhancing 2017 as the Year Of Giving as revealed by H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President, and each the instructions of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai."
Dr. AL Rand said that the Year of Offering personifies humanity and shows the UAE's commitment to advertise charity and positivity in order to impart and cultivate a culture of volunteerism to all the worried celebrations and support the UAE's advancement, which could be attained through more powerful collaboration between the general public and economic sectors.
H.E. Dr. Al Rand stressed the Ministry's dedication to make certain the lasting health of individuals of the UAE based on the highest global criteria by giving extensive and specific solutions in a lasting healthy atmosphere in accordance with plans, legislation and programs and via effective local and worldwide partnerships. Furthermore, the Ministry aims to attain the greatest criteria of health care by 2021, inning accordance with the Emirates National Program, in end result of its decades-long march to excellence in the field of medication and health care.
H.E. Dr. Al Rand further described the value of the 'Help Me Hear' effort because of current statics from UAE polls indicating that the rate of hearing loss amongst people depends on 4 percent. In action to this, the Ministry aims to give support to deaf children by making treatment readily available absolutely free. This is in line with the vision of the sensible management in support of 2017's affirmation as the Year of Giving, as it will certainly return the feeling of hearing to a multitude of children, specifically those who are not citizens or that are from low-income families that can not manage medical expenses, to highlight the nation's initiatives to supply cost-free therapies even to non-nationals.
His Excellency said: "The effort aims to enhance the capacity of children to communicate and reintegrate into culture, which then will certainly add to the lasting advancement of the nation. This will certainly be done with covering the price of operations and implants, relying on the scenario. The campaign will originally be restricted to children presently living in the UAE and will certainly be supported by makers of audio gadget implants, charities."
The Ministry will oversee an executive committee goinged by H.E. Dr. Hussein Al Rand to facilitate the Commission's procedures and connect with the skilled authorities on the effort's application. To completion of the press meeting, H.E. emphasized the relevance of good work that realizes the leadership's vision and which represents creativity and unrestricted worths. Therefore, the effort will certainly soon be expanded beyond the UAE to consist of poor nations that call for comparable support so that even more individuals in requirement can be made happy and gain from the abundant bounties that come as an outcome of this Year of Giving.