Cargo delivers 72.5 metric tonnes of emergency provides to assist include Ebola outbreak
The cargo landed in Entebbe, Uganda, wearing 72.5 metric tonnes of humanitarian shipment, certain for communities around the border. The Global Meals Programme’s United International locations Humanitarian Reaction Depot (WFP/UNHRD) and UNICEF supplied the provides from their prepositioned shares in Dubai Humanitarian warehouses.
The comfort provides incorporated water purification drugs to stay folks secure from waterborne illness, cellular garage devices and turbines to energy remedy websites in spaces with out dependable electrical energy and tarpaulins to supply safe haven for each sufferers and clinical groups. The cargo additionally carried information loggers to assist well being staff observe temperature-sensitive vaccines and drugs all through the chilly chain, in addition to an ablution unit to improve the hygiene requirements had to include the outbreak.
Giuseppe Saba, CEO and Board Member of Dubai Humanitarian, stated: “Four airlifts in, this operation shows what steady leadership and clear vision can achieve. The United Arab Emirates and the Government of Dubai have made sure that when our partners need to move relief, they can, and that is exactly what a response to an outbreak like this demands.”
“None of this cargo means much sitting in a warehouse. It only matters once it reaches the people using it: a nurse setting up a treatment unit, a family boiling water they can now trust. That is what today’s flight was really about, and it is why Dubai Humanitarian keeps showing up for this response, facilitating shipment after shipment,” added Saba.
This newest airlift provides to a hectic yr for Dubai Humanitarian, which has facilitated 9 air and land shipments turning in over 450 metric tonnes because the starting of 2026. Delivered in shut coordination with companions to improve the global humanitarian neighborhood, those shipments have spoke back to emergencies in Gaza, Lebanon, Mozambique and Afghanistan.
As a world hub connecting humanitarian organisations with the logistics, warehousing and delivery functions they want, Dubai Humanitarian stays dedicated to making sure assist reaches folks in disaster anywhere and every time it’s wanted maximum.
