QRCS to treat 175,638 patients in 10 countries in 2024
49 health projects to cost QR41.4m
QNA
Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) announced its plans to implement 49 health projects in 2024, costing QR 41.4 million in total, to treat 175,638 patients in 10 countries. These countries are Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Niger, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq.
In a statement, QRCS said that the medical sector is a key area of activity for the society. In a typical disadvantaged or affected community, the health care system is absent or lacks sufficient personnel, resources, and medical equipment. As a result, much of the community do not have access to the appropriate and specialist health care they deserve, which weighs heavily on the health conditions and finances of the patients and their families.
In order to ensure good health for vulnerable individuals and communities around the world, most of the foreign interventions of QRCS focus on providing basic, emergency, and mental health care for poor people in affected areas; building the capacity of the local health sector; and supplying the necessary medications, medical equipment, and consumables.
These projects focus on the provision of medications, medical equipment, consumables, and ambulance vehicles; surgeries of various specializations; dialysis sessions; hearing aids; wheelchairs and other mobility aids; deployment of mobile clinics/pharmacies to remote areas; and installation of solar panels at medical facilities.
For low-income and destitute patients, the high costs of health care and surgeries are a too heavy burden. This often forces them to postpone or cancel the medically required interventions, which ends up in deterioration of health, or even death.
QRCS implemented 57 health interventions in 2023. Costing QR 58,336,279 (28 percent of total international spending), and these activities helped 3,580,836 patients in Somalia, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Niger, Syria, and Mauritania.
