Wanted: Pink knights who are healthcare providers

Sharjah - Registration will be open for male and female healthcare providers on the website

The organisers of the annual Pink Caravan Ride (PCR), a breast cancer awareness initiative, has called on doctors and nurses from all nationalities to join its seventh annual ride.
Themed 'Seven Years for Seven Emirates', the 10-day horse ride will begin in Sharjah on March 7.
Registration will be open for male and female healthcare providers on the website www.pink-caravan.ae from January 12 to February 7, 2017. Registration is open to those covering general medicine, family medicine and radiology, plus X-Ray technicians and nurses.
Over the past six years, the Pink Caravan Ride has successfully raised awareness on the importance of early detection and helped to dispel myths about breast cancer. The teams have offered medical advice and lectures and also organised workshops at 87 schools and 410 medical clinics offering free detection examinations for 41,391 people, including 8,526 men.
Dr Sawsan Al Madhi, director-general of FoCP and head of the PCR medical and awareness committee, said: "We depend on med-ical clinics, who are one of the four bedrocks to raise community awareness about breast cancer. Doctors, nurses and X-Ray technicians are instrumental in encouraging individuals and families to undergo free tests and screenings as well as providing them with detailed information on breast cancer and how to deal with it as patients."
Dr Al Madhi underlined that the seventh annual ride will be exceptional and will feature many activities held for the first time. "The medical clinics will cover more areas compared to previous years, and that is why it is important to increase the number of the medical and nursing staff.
"We are pleased to announce that applications for the annual Pink Caravan Ride 2017 are now open for doctors and nurses of all nationalities in the UAE who would like to take part in the ride. They will join hands with us to help the Pink Caravan reach its goals, and at the same time promote a culture of volunteering in the UAE, especially with the new initiative, the Year of Giving 2017 in the UAE.
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