Hyundai Motor Group has donated two mobile clinics to the Ministry of Health in a bid to demostrate its corporate social responsibility following the official visit of the President of Korean Republic last week. The company also plans to donate eight such health centers to four other African countries. The mobile units are of two types; one equipped for internal medicine and the other equipped with a digital x-ray machine. The unit cost of each is estimated to be close to 500 thousand dollars. The company also donates 40 thousand dollars to Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia, a local non governmental organization, .

The mobile digital x-ray clinic has remote diagnostic systems in addition to the x-ray machine while the mobile internal medicine clinic will feature the latest medical devices such as digital ultrasonic technology and a portable electrocardiogram. It can conduct basic medical tests such as malaria screening.

The other four African countries which will receive two mobile clinics each are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Nigeria and Rwanda, according to the information obtained from the Global Public Relations Office of the automaker company.

The mobile clinics are built on Hyundai’s four-wheel-drive truck in order to overcome challenging road conditions in remote areas of operation.

From Friday, July 08 to 11, 2011, Addis Ababa hosted a large number of high profile delegates representing politics and business from the Republic of Korea including the President: Lee Myung-bac.

The handing over ceremony was carried out on the premises of the ministry and it was attended by Tedros Adhanom (PhD); Minister of Health, Kim Sung-Hwan; Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affair and Health, Chung Jin Haeng: President of Hyundai Motor Company, Haile Gebreselassie; Chairman of Hyundai Marathon Motor Engineering.

Hyundai Marathon Motor Engineering was founded by Ethiopia’s athletic and business icon, Haile, in 2009. The company is the sole importer and distributer of Hyundai Motor’s products in Ethiopia.

The company also deployed 60 volunteers for ten days last week.

Founded in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company has grown into the Hyundai Motor Group. The automaker has more than two dozen auto-related subsidiaries and affiliates. The company has managed to sell close to 3.6 million vehicles globally in 2010 in 186 countries through 5,300 showrooms. It has been the fifth world’s largest automaker since 2007.

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