http://www.english.hadhramaut.info 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.
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