{"id":5438,"date":"2020-06-25T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T09:08:19","slug":"uae-sends-medical-aid-to-jubaland-in-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/06\/25\/uae-sends-medical-aid-to-jubaland-in-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE sends medical aid to Jubaland in fight against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ABU DHABI &#8212;<\/strong> The UAE sent an aid plane carrying 7 metric tons of medical supplies to Jubaland state of Somalia, to bolster the country\u2019s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This aid will assist approximately 7,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the aid delivery, Mohammed Ahmed Othman Al Hammadi, UAE Ambassador to Somalia, said, &#8220;The medical assistance sent to Jubaland, Somalia today affirms the UAE leadership&#8217;s keenness to support international efforts to combat the COVID-19 virus, particularly in African countries. This aid also aims to provide urgently needed medical supplies to thousands of medical professionals treating Somali patients and confronting the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UAE sent an aid plane containing 27 metric tons of medical supplies to Somalia on 14th April in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, WHO. The aid contained 7 metric tons provided by the UAE and 20 metric tons offered by WHO, benefiting more than 27,000 healthcare workers to strengthen efforts to contain the virus\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, the UAE has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by providing over 963 metric tons of aid to 68 countries, supporting more than 963,000 medical professionals in the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: WAM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABU DHABI &#8212; The UAE sent an aid plane carrying 7 metric tons of medical supplies to Jubaland state of Somalia, to bolster the country\u2019s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. This aid will assist approximately 7,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus. Commenting on the aid delivery, Mohammed Ahmed Othman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,25],"tags":[360,33,361,35,66],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-relief","tag-countrys-efforts-to-curb-the-spread-of-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-medical-supplies-to-somalia","tag-somalia","tag-uae"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}