(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) For four months in a row, Qatar Red Crescent Society's (QRCS) relief staff in Yemen are working hard to help the communities affected by the violence there.
A humanitarian program is in place to relieve the Yemeni people over six months, with funding of more than $4 million (QR 14.5 million) from Qatar Development Fund (QVN).
QRCS's staff are working on two levels: (1) providing aid in Yemen through the representative missions in Sana'a and Aden and (2) relieving the Yemeni refugees in Djibouti, the nearest shelter to the conflict zones in Aden, Lahij, Taiz, and others governorates.
Last month, QRCS established an official mission in Djibouti to supervise these activities in coordination with government and nongovernment institutions, such as the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health, the Ports Department, the Red Crescent Society of Djibouti, Sanabil Charitable Organization, and the concerned international organizations.
In Aden, QRCS initiated a project to support hospitals with medical and surgical staff in orthopedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and oral & maxillofacial surgery.
They are aided with medical equipment and supplies to perform surgeries for the 500 injuries in 22 May Hospital.
Initially, 84 people will be covered in the first phase from Dhale, Lahij, and Abyan.
In Taiz, more than 600 injured people have underwent surgeries so far in Al-Joumhouri and Al-Safwa Hospitals.
To deal with the increasing numbers of victims, two more hospitals will be engaged in receiving the injured.
A recovery center was rehabilitated for the benefit of 1,500 post-surgery inmates. This included furnishing, maintenance, equipment, an ambulance vehicle, laboratory supplies, medical and technical staffing, catering, and staff incentives.
Another project is to support dialysis centers in Aden, Abyan, Lahij, Dhale, Taiz, Ibb, and Al-Hudaydah. This included medical and nonmedical equipment, ACs, tanks, maintenance, rehabilitation, fuel, water supply, and staff incentives in seven hospitals.
One project conducted by QRCS in Djibouti with funding from QVN is to move the injured from Yemen to receive treatment in Djibouti.
This project covers more than 60 patients to undergo surgeries in public and private hospitals, in coordination with the Djibouti Ministry of Health.
In Obock, a contract was signed with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to procure 300 Better Shelter units for Yemeni refugee families.
The shelters are in the process of transportation by sea to Obock and will be installed next month.
Finally, QRCS will offer health care to 1,450 Yemeni refugees in Markazi refugee camp, as well as the population of the remote region, where health and other basic services are poor. The nearest hospital is four km away and is inadequate to meet the needs of the refugees and local community.
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