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Tribune News Network
Doha
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza, has distributed 77 digital thermometers to 44 public schools in the blockade’s five governorates, with a view to controlling the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and ensuring a safe school environment for students and teachers.
Engineer Mohamed Nassar, director of Projects Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, said the contribution of QRCS met the needs of the ministry to ensure a safe educational process by securing all the materials to protect the safety of staff and students at public schools.
According to him, 24,000 boys and girls are being checked with the new thermometers.
He valued QRCS’s constant efforts to help the Palestinian people.
Dr Akram Nassar, director of QRCS’s representation mission in Gaza, described their support to Gaza’s schools as an emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic to keep the students safe as they attend their schools.
“We have ongoing health projects to alleviate the impact of difficult circumstances imposed by the virus,” said Dr Nassar. “There is a project to provide emergency coronavirus control supplies at a cost of $95,000. It involved procuring 800 swab kits, sanitisers, gloves and medical consumables for the Ministry of Health.”
“Besides, 13,000 litres of disinfectants (sodium hypochlorite), shoes and leather gloves were delivered to the Municipality of Gaza in order to protect its workers,” he added.
Doha
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza, has distributed 77 digital thermometers to 44 public schools in the blockade’s five governorates, with a view to controlling the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and ensuring a safe school environment for students and teachers.
Engineer Mohamed Nassar, director of Projects Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, said the contribution of QRCS met the needs of the ministry to ensure a safe educational process by securing all the materials to protect the safety of staff and students at public schools.
According to him, 24,000 boys and girls are being checked with the new thermometers.
He valued QRCS’s constant efforts to help the Palestinian people.
Dr Akram Nassar, director of QRCS’s representation mission in Gaza, described their support to Gaza’s schools as an emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic to keep the students safe as they attend their schools.
“We have ongoing health projects to alleviate the impact of difficult circumstances imposed by the virus,” said Dr Nassar. “There is a project to provide emergency coronavirus control supplies at a cost of $95,000. It involved procuring 800 swab kits, sanitisers, gloves and medical consumables for the Ministry of Health.”
“Besides, 13,000 litres of disinfectants (sodium hypochlorite), shoes and leather gloves were delivered to the Municipality of Gaza in order to protect its workers,” he added.
