(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) office in Gaza continued to support the local health sector following the Israeli aggression on the enclave, supplying the Ministry of Health hospitals with medicines and medical consumables, with a donation from Al Asmakh Charity Foundation in Qatar.
Costing about QR500,000, the supplies included materials for cardiovascular surgeries and 14 medicines of up to 600 packages, which will hopefully help treat hundreds of patients.
Dr. Akram Nassar, Head of QRC Office, praised the initiative by Al Asmakh Charity, which paid the entire value of the project to QRC.
He said the new health project will provide large quantities of medical consumables for cardiovascular surgeries and catheterisations at Gaza hospitals which are facing a severe shortage, causing the ministry to send patients abroad for treatment.
"One of QRC's top priorities is to help the ministry and medical workers to compensate for the serious gaps in medicines and medical requirements at hospitals," he added.
The project is part of QRC's efforts to help the people affected by the recent war on Gaza. The latest effort was a mission of three surgeons sent to Gaza to perform advanced surgical operations at some hospitals over two weeks and assess the conditions of local hospitals and recommend QRC projects to improve public health care services.
Under a project to rehabilitate and upgrade sewerage pumps and generators, the QRC office procured a new batch of equipment and spare parts for the warehouses of Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, including car air filters, oils, clothes, and shoes for workers of sewerage stations. The cost was $33,000, out of the project's $1,040,000 budget, which was funded by the Programme of the GCC for the Reconstruction of Gaza, supervised by Islamic Development Bank.
QRC has a top priority for the advancement of the local community by improving their living standards, providing urgent needs through relief work during aggressions and bombings, and meeting their normal needs through developmental projects during peace times.
Despite the blockade, as a member of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement that enjoys legal protection and access to disaster-afflicted and isolated regions, QRC implemented sheltering, healthcare, education, water and sanitation and infrastructure programmes involving QR58,918,792 in 2013-2014.
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