UAE | Health
Thalassaemia screening launched
Thalassaemia screening has been launched by aswaaq and runs until Thursday.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:35 January 5, 2009
Dubai: Thalassaemia screening has been launched by aswaaq and runs until Thursday.
The campaign has been organised in cooperation with the UAE Genetic Diseases Association (UAE GDA).
It will cover all aswaaq staff working in the head office and in the Nad Al Hamar community centre, as well as the centre's visitors from neighbouring areas, from 3 to 8pm.
Yousuf Sharaf, Deputy CEO, said: "As part of its social responsibility, aswaaq is keen to offer all kinds of support to the UAE community. From this perspective comes the collaboration with the UAE GDA which has launched its first project - Emirates Free of Thalassemia by the year 2012, with the aim of identifying the beta-thalassaemia and sickle-cell carriers in the UAE pre-marital population to make the country free from the new births of children with thalassaemia by 2012."
Latest news
- Sharjah boy tops Indian board's class 12 exams
- Dubai number plates auction raises Dh27m
- Youngsters dance and raise cash for charity
- Dubai departments upgrade services
- Get yourself a free test for diabetes
- Ensuring a safety net for intellectual property
- Reader's issue addressed
- 5,552 illegals held in Dubai this year
- Man cleared because he took drugs in France
- Man charged with trafficking women
- Auditors to probe Mizin graft case
- Breaking down cultural barriers with photographs
- Abu Dhabi Crown Prince visits Islamic centre
- Smart e-Gate system launched
- Cyber infidelity creeping out of virtual domain
Community Reports
-
Mirror, mirror show me the way
Driver on Salam Street had so many boxes and fruits piled into car, he would not be able to view rear or right side mirrors
-
Parents should be more vigilant
Reader's picture highlights risk of negligence by caretakers
-
Warming up to ‘Mobilise the Earth' theme
Dubai school dedicates a whole week to celebrating Earth Day with can-collection drives, sapling plantation and painting competition among others
-
Drivers using mobiles put others' lives at risk
Speeding is dangerous for the driver and other motorists
