ABU DHABI // Five thousand people in Cairo have been treated by a voluntary medical team comprising of Emirati and Egyptian staff.
The team, which included doctors and surgeons, provided diagnoses, therapy and preventative programmes for thousands of children and elderly and conducted four heart valve surgeries according to Wam, the state news agency.
The now concluded humanitarian mission was part of the Zayed Giving Initiative, a UAE-based philanthropy organisation which aims to promote volunteerism.
Earlier this year the organisation dispatched volunteer Emirati doctors to Kathmandu to treat hundreds affected by the Nepal earthquake.
The initiative was founded in 2003.
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