
The UAE embassy in Canada has donated $10,000 to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in the memory of a Canadian nurse who worked in the UAE for 38 years.
UAE Ambassador to Canada, Mohammed Saif Hilal Al Shehhi, presented, during a meeting, a donation of US$10,000 to Colin Hennigar, Associate Director of Major Gifts at SickKids, in remembrance of Gertrude Dyck, who was one of the first foreigners to work as a nurse in the oasis of Al Ain. She was nicknamed "Doctora Latifa," meaning "mercy" by the locals.
Gertrude acted as a midwife to many of the 90,000 babies born at the Oasis Hospital in Al Ain after it opened in 1960.
Senior officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and UAE diplomats attended the meeting.
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