(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Qatar Red Crescent (QRC), Over the past few months, has made considerable progress in its humanitarian and relief activities in favour of the Malian refugees and local community in Bassiknou town, the Hodh Ech Chargui region, south-eastern Mauritania as well as nationwide, in partnership with the Mauritania Red Crescent.
A new QRC local office was opened in Bassiknou for closer field supervision of its relief and development projects, in coordination with the Mauritania Red Crescent, the executive partner, under a three-year framework agreement.
The recent clashes in Mali drove thousands of Malians to flee to neighbouring countries, including Mauritania, which hosts in the Bassiknou-located Ombada camp alone nearly 60,000 refugees,living in very difficult humanitarian and particularly health conditions. The town lacks adequate health care, largely in surgeries.
QRC installed and furnished an integrated surgical unit and sent a surgeon to support the state health care centre by assigning one day every week for examinations and operations. Saturday was selected because it is the day when the town's weekly market takes place.
QRC organised training courses for 35 volunteers of the Mauritania Red Crescent, as well as awareness programmes for 500 Malian families at Ombada camp and 500 local families. QRC also plays an active role in combating Ebola, by conducting health education programmes on the disease.
The opening ceremony of the surgical unit was attended by the town's governor, military governor, and chief doctor; QRC representative and surgeon; the Family Recreation Foundation representative; a doctor from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); head of local committee of the Mauritanian Red Crescent.
Other visitors included representative of the Italian humanitarian foundation INTERSOS, representative and health coordinator of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), representative of the Food Security Commission, representative and surgeon of Doctors Without Borders, and ICRC representative.
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