(MENAFN- QNA) Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and Qatar Charity (QC) have recently opened a new health center in Awdheegle District, Lower Shebelle, 120 km south Mogadishu, Somalia, at a cost of QR 280,000 to improve the health care services provided for the local community.
Serving the district's 30,000 population as well as neighboring towns, the health center comprises several departments: outpatient, maternity, pediatrics, pharmacy, and short observation and inpatient.
QC Office in Somalia undertook all construction works, while QRC Office there will conduct management and operation for 12 months, then the center will be handed over to local health authorities.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Mayor of Awdheegle District Mohamed Oways Abu baker, Grand Chieftain of Awdheegle Tribes, Sultan Meewa Hadji Othman, tribal and local community leaders, and QRC and QC representatives in Somalia.
In his keynote speech, Abu Baker thanked QRC and QC for their continuous and fruitful efforts in Somalia, providing diverse development assistance such as food, aid for farmers to improve agricultural crops, and construction of health facilities. "We hope that QRC and QC will continue to stand by their Somali brothers. All thanks and appreciation to the leaders and people of Qatar for their support of the Somali people. May they be rewarded well," he stated.
Sultan Othman said, "Thanks to God and the benevolence of our brothers in Qatar, there will no longer be anyone in Awdheegle suffering from lack of health services. Our women will never find difficulty giving birth. This is by virtue of QRC and QC, which gave us a full-fledged health center with doctors, medical workers, and free medicines. I ask everyone in Awdheegle to pray for our brothers in Qatar, represented in QRC and QC."
The newly opened Awdheegle health center comes in tandem with the bilateral cooperation between QRC and QC in Somalia under the wings of the Qatari Alliance for the Relief of the People of Somalia and the Philippines, formed 14 months ago by QRC, QC, Eid Charity, and Al-Asmakh Charity Foundation. The alliance has implemented tens of relief and development projects for the victims of the cyclone and drought in Somalia, in different aspects of humanitarian action, such as food and nonfood assistance, health services, sheltering, digging of water wells, and establishment of productive projects.
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