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Deputy Hadramout governor meets Singaporean ambassador
[The Source: www.sabanews.net - 15/11/2008]
Deputy Hadramout governor for desert
and valley affairs Ahmed al-Junaid has met
in Sayoun city with the
Singaporean ambassador to Yemen Hilmi Bin Talib. Bin Talib has
earlier arrived in the city leading a Singaporean people and state
delegation to take part in relief efforts to help the affected people
in the rain-stricken areas. The delegation, which included
medics and medical experts along with medicines, aimed at providing
medical aid to the affected through mobile clinics as well as supplying
water purifying equipment. The delegation would also donate medicines for the patients. Moreover, the medics will treat patients at the Sayoon General Hospital
during their stay in the city over the next two week, and would review
aid requirements and needs of the affected areas. The
Singaporean health experts are expected to give advice to their Yemeni
counterparts on how to deal with the consequences of the natural
disasters. Further Singaporean aid is expected to arrive in Sayoon by next week, one of the delegation members said. FR
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