Thalassaemia screening launched

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."