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Tribune News Network
Doha
QATAR Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has sent a medical mission to Bangladesh to perform a surgical intervention programme for patients from the Rohingya refugees and the poor local community.
At a total cost of nearly QR160,000, the project is conducted by a team of physicians from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Sidra Medicine.
Around 300 patients will undergo general surgery operations at two public hospitals in Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh. This figure is to be added to an estimated 35,000 indirect beneficiaries.
Another goal of the mission is to support the host health facilities with medical equipment, consumables and training. This will help improve the healthcare services provided for the refugee and local communities.
QRCS' office in Bangladesh is working closely with Bangladesh Red Crescent Society to secure official permissions, purchase the medical supplies and select the beneficiaries.
Earlier, memoranda of understanding (MoU) had been signed with the hospitals concerned.
Bangladesh hosts hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled the violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar. Throughout their long journey on foot, the refugees lacked food, clothing and shelter. Many of them suffer from chronic and communicable diseases.
The shelter camps are hardly adequate to accommodate the huge number of newcomers. The influx of refugees has caused pressure on the fragile infrastructure in those poor and overpopulated areas.
While most humanitarian providers focus on the much-needed humanitarian and healthcare services, the complications of surgical cases remain a threat to numerous lives in the largely poor population.
