Fastlink, one of MTC group companies, announced today it will provide dental treatment services in its Mobile Clinic for Children; the first mobile clinic in the kingdom that was launched in 2002. It aims to provide medical treatment for unprivileged children in the poor rural areas of the country that lack comprehensive health care services.
“Fastlink Mobile Clinic for Children provided the required medication to combat diseases that are common among children,” said Nasouh Al-Qadiri, supervisor of Mobile Clinic for Children.
“It has also provided them with the needed medication and comprehensive care,” he added.
He noted that children in remote and underprivileged areas of the Kingdom can’t afford to travel to major cities for treatment, therefore, health care is provided to them wherever they are.
Hundreds of families from different parts of the Kingdom benefited from Fastlink’s Mobile Clinic for Children. The clinic had comprehensive health services; medical equipment and a qualified medical team. It was also fully prepared to disburse medication and the required prescription drugs free of charge, in addition to transferring patients to the Health Ministry’s centers and hospitals.
Al- Qadiri said the clinic is prepared to handle 25-30 cases daily in designated areas, whose citizens are incapable of reaching Amman or any of the main governorates to receive the needed medical treatment. The process will be carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and its medical centers across the country. The Health Ministry has always supported this pioneering project and encouraged it to become sustainable.
The clinic is fully equipped in accordance with the highest international medical criteria. It is a large truck that has different rooms designed for checking patients, dental treatment supervised by a specialised dentist, waiting sections, toilets, entrance, inclusive medical equipment, a pharmacy and a computerized data base to keep track of patients medical records.
“Fastlink has adopted a broad strategy that would strengthen the company’s integration in society through supporting all the vital sectors in the Kingdom, such social development and the health sector,” said Fastlink’s Corporate Communications director Suzanne Afaneh.
She added that Fastlink was an avid supporter of the “Towards Life Campaign” to combat cancer in cooperation with the Al-Hussein Cancer Foundation. The company has also launched a number of projects and initiatives that seek to enhance private & public sectors partnership in a manner that serves the national interest. These include Fastlink’s Education Fund, Fastlink Community centers for information technology and Fastlink Emergency Aid Fund.
The clinic has supervised the treatment of a number of common diseases such as tonsillitis, respiratory tract, and the ear, nose and throat infections, asthma, anemia, chicken pox, stomach pain for children and infants and allergy. It has also discovered a number of medical cases such as heart conditions and one case that were diagnosed with Thalassemia.
The clinic operates five days a week as part of a monthly program. It visits five villages in a week consecutively, and offers medical care for children in a village. It also follows up on the patients when it returns in the next weeks to treat others. The clinic also conducts lab tests and transfers some of the cases to hospitals for three months.
About Fastlink
Jordan Mobile Telephone Services Company Ltd. “Fastlink”, founded in 1995, was the first operator to introduce mobile phone services into Jordan. In just a few years, the company earned its reputation as the most progressive telecom operator in the region in terms of competitiveness and readiness to adopt new technologies and deploy cutting-edge services. Since its inception, Fastlink has tallied subscriber growth at an exponential rate, with the number of users currently exceeding 2 million subscribers. Through more than 1,700 cell sites, Fastlink covers the entire populated area of the Kingdom. In January 2003, Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. (MTC) acquired Fastlink in what was considered the largest single acquisition in the Middle East area, and the largest private sector investment in Jordan.
MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) is the pioneer of mobile services in the Middle East and now a major player in Africa. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the region’s first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our “3x3x3” expansion strategy in 2002, we have expanded rapidly.
As a leading mobile and data services operator in five Middle Eastern and 14 sub-Saharan African countries with 6500 employees, we provide a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 14 million individual and business customers.
We operate in Kuwait and Bahrain as mtc-vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, and in 14 sub-Saharan countries in Africa as Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and most recently Madagascar.
Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code; Tele), MTC’s market capitalization exceeded US$13 billion as of December 31, 2005.
For more visit, www.mtctelecom.com
