Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society’s (QRCS) relief staff in Yemen have been working hard for the last four months to help communities affected by violence in the country.
A humanitarian programme is in place to provide relief to Yemenis for over six months, with funding of more than $4m (QR14.5m) from Qatar Development Fund (QVN).
QRCS’s staff are working on two levels: Providing aid in Yemen through the representative missions in Sana’a and Aden and providing relief to Yemeni refugees in Djibouti, the nearest shelter from the conflict zones in Aden, Lahij, Taiz, and others governorates.
Last month, QRCS set up an official mission in Djibouti to supervise these activities in coordination with government and non-government institutions, such as the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health, the Ports Department, the Red Crescent Society of Djibouti, Sanabil Charitable Organization, and international organisations concerned.
In Aden, QRCS initiated a project to support hospitals with medical and surgical staff in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery.
They are aided with medical equipment and supplies to perform surgeries on the 500 injured in 22 May Hospital.
Initially, 84 people from Dhale, Lahij and Abyan will be covered in the first phase.
In Taiz, more than 600 injured people have undergone surgeries in Al-Joumhouri and Al-Safwa Hospitals.
To deal with the increasing number of victims, two more hospitals will be engaged in receiving the injured.
A recovery centre was rehabilitated for the benefit of 1,500 post-surgery patients. This included furnishing, maintenance, equipment, an ambulance vehicle, laboratory supplies, medical and technical staffing, catering, and staff incentives.
Another project is to support dialysis centres in Aden, Abyan, Lahij, Dhale, Taiz, Ibb, and Al-Hudaydah. This included medical and non-medical equipment, ACs, tanks, maintenance, rehabilitation, fuel, water supply, and staff incentives in seven hospitals.
One project conducted by QRCS in Djibouti with funding from QVN is to move the injured from Yemen to receive treatment in Djibouti.
This project covers more than 60 patients for surgeries in public and private hospitals, in coordination with the Djibouti Ministry of Health.
The Peninsula
