HAMMER FORUM TEAM IN YEMEN

SANA'A, Sep. 27 (Saba) - A German medic team from the Hammer Forum Association has arrived in Yemen to perform surgeries for children in Taiz.

Head of the team Iman Wilidis said the 15-member team including specialists in brain and nerve surgeries will perform 150 surgeries as well as testing about 2000 Yemeni children for brain and nerve diseases.

For his part, representative of the association in Yemen Ali al-Zakhami said the main goal of the team's visit is to provide medical and humanitarian aid for Yemeni patient children and to send difficult cases to Germany for special treatments.

So far, 370 Yemeni children were sent to German hospitals and more than 3000 surgeries and more than 15000 tests were performed in Yemen.

The Hammer Forum is a cooperative of doctors, guest parents, male- and female nurses, hospitals, donors and many more engaged persons. The Hammer Forum primarily provides volunteer aid for the children of this world.

The Hammer Forum was founded on 12 March 1991 during the second Gulf War by doctors and citizens of Hamm. They no longer wished to witness the need and misery that especially affected the children without providing aid.

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