UAE supports fight against COVID-19 in West Africa

Medical supplies, field hospital set up air dashed to Ghana upon UN request

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Dubai: “Brother, we need help.” Those words by the head of UN’s World Food Programme over a phone call to His Highness Shaikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, were enough to get a massive cargo plane carrying medical supplies and parts of a field hospital to Ghana from the UAE.

Two video posted by David Beasley, director of the UN’s World Food Programme, showed aid being offloaded from the C-17 Globemaster, which is being used in the pandemic relief effort by the UAE to support the UN mission in West Africa after direct orders by His Highness.