Dubai: Aster Volunteers Mobile Medical Services flagged off its 14th mobile medical services for Sudan from Aster Hospital in Al Qusais. Launched by Aster DM Healthcare in 2012 to provide quality healthcare to people living in areas with little or no healthcare facility, Aster Volunteers have their footprints in countries like India, Philippines, Oman and Ethiopia, besides the UAE. They have impacted more than two million lives and have 27,000 associated volunteers who run various initiatives under the programme. The 14th medical unit has been launched in partnership with Big Heart Foundation. The current medical unit for Sudan was launched in the presence of Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, Dr Aman Puri, Consul General of India to the UAE, Ghanim Ahmed Yahia, Acting Consul General of the Republic of Sudan for Dubai and northern Emirates; Khalifa Hassan Abdul Karim Al Darrai, Executive Director, Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS), Dr Sherbaz Bichu, CEO of Aster Hospitals and Clinics UAE; officials from Big Heart Foundation, delegates from Aster and other guests.