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The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has opened a new Extended Intensive Care Service (EICS) at Al-Jomhouri University Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The operation of the new EICS department, in the presence of the Minister of Public Health and Population (MOH), the Governor of Amanat Al-Asimah, and the director of the hospital, was the final step of the project to support health care for refugees in Sanaa.
During the opening ceremony, the Communications Director at UNHCR, Donia Aslam Khan, expressed her delight at the new department, one of the largest in Sanaa. She was proud of this joint achievement by UNHC and QRCS, hoping that this partnership would go further.
Dr. Wafaa Al-Shaibani, programme manager at the QRCS mission in Yemen, said the new department was of great benefit to the refugees and the host community. This support, she added, will increase the capacity of the hospital and reduce the need to go to expensive private hospitals.
Dr. Mohamed Asaad, UNHCR Health Officer, commended QRCS’s role in completing this work amid exceptional conditions. “We are proud of the contributions made by everyone who had their share in this,” said Dr. Asaad. “The EICS department will serve the internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees in Yemen. I would like to thank MOH and the Amanat Al-Asimah. QRCS has done a great job in the success of this department, which is the largest in the country. We will keep working together with QRCS”.
Following the ceremony, QRCS and UNHCR held a consultative meeting to discuss further bilateral cooperation on projects that meet the needs of both refugees and local communities.
Yemen’s health sector is struggling with an increasing shortage of medical supplies. QRCS has already supported the Al-Jomhouri University Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 28 fully equipped medical beds.
According to the hospital statistics centre, an average of 280 cases per month or 3,360 per year is expected to be received by the new EICS department.
With this opening, the QRCS refugee health sector project is concluded, benefiting up to 45,000 people, at a total cost of QR 2,113,103 financed by the UNHCR. It involved life-saving surgery, provision of anesthetic devices and vital signs monitors, and COVID-19 and viral detection kits. Under the project, 45 different medical devices were delivered to Al-Thawra General Hospital, Al-Jmhouri Hospital and the National Center for Public Health. These included a total of 36 syringe pumps, six DC shock devices and three vein viewers.
Doha
The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has opened a new Extended Intensive Care Service (EICS) at Al-Jomhouri University Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The operation of the new EICS department, in the presence of the Minister of Public Health and Population (MOH), the Governor of Amanat Al-Asimah, and the director of the hospital, was the final step of the project to support health care for refugees in Sanaa.
During the opening ceremony, the Communications Director at UNHCR, Donia Aslam Khan, expressed her delight at the new department, one of the largest in Sanaa. She was proud of this joint achievement by UNHC and QRCS, hoping that this partnership would go further.
Dr. Wafaa Al-Shaibani, programme manager at the QRCS mission in Yemen, said the new department was of great benefit to the refugees and the host community. This support, she added, will increase the capacity of the hospital and reduce the need to go to expensive private hospitals.
Dr. Mohamed Asaad, UNHCR Health Officer, commended QRCS’s role in completing this work amid exceptional conditions. “We are proud of the contributions made by everyone who had their share in this,” said Dr. Asaad. “The EICS department will serve the internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees in Yemen. I would like to thank MOH and the Amanat Al-Asimah. QRCS has done a great job in the success of this department, which is the largest in the country. We will keep working together with QRCS”.
Following the ceremony, QRCS and UNHCR held a consultative meeting to discuss further bilateral cooperation on projects that meet the needs of both refugees and local communities.
Yemen’s health sector is struggling with an increasing shortage of medical supplies. QRCS has already supported the Al-Jomhouri University Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 28 fully equipped medical beds.
According to the hospital statistics centre, an average of 280 cases per month or 3,360 per year is expected to be received by the new EICS department.
With this opening, the QRCS refugee health sector project is concluded, benefiting up to 45,000 people, at a total cost of QR 2,113,103 financed by the UNHCR. It involved life-saving surgery, provision of anesthetic devices and vital signs monitors, and COVID-19 and viral detection kits. Under the project, 45 different medical devices were delivered to Al-Thawra General Hospital, Al-Jmhouri Hospital and the National Center for Public Health. These included a total of 36 syringe pumps, six DC shock devices and three vein viewers.
