Qatar- QRCS provides 30000 food aid for Syrians in Madaya

1/13/2016 1:07:35 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A Syrian in Madaya shows part of humanitarian aid he has received from Qatar Red Crescent Society.

Doha: In response to the recent tragedy in the Syrian town of Madaya which has received global attention Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has initiated a $30000 urgent relief intervention to help the beleaguered there.

Under the siege and lack of supplies for two months now all market commodities have been depleted and overpriced. Tomato juice is used instead of infant formula. Widespread malnutrition has been reported especially among children with 24 deaths due to starvation.

QRCS personnel secured food items such as rice lentils bulgur sugar cheese and infant formula into Madaya.

Food packages were distributed urgently to 150 families.

QRCS’s office in Turkey is facing difficulties in moving this assistance into Madaya including insecurity the mountainous terrains and low temperatures among others but is going on with another proposed intervention.

As a neutral humanitarian organisation concerned with the alleviation of suffering of the vulnerable everywhere QRCS issued a statement calling upon all parties to respect the international humanitarian law and conventions and allow relief workers access to the distressed people in Madaya.

QRCS called for humanitarian corridors to deliver aid to the needy warning against an imminent humanitarian disaster in the town added to the recent blizzards amid a severe lack of heaters and medical services.

This intervention is part of QRCS’s efforts to relieve the Syrians affected by the escalated situation in several parts of the country.

Earlier QRCS launched a relief intervention in Al Zabadani to support hospitals with $40000 worth of supplies ambulances power generators and fuel.

Another intervention supplied Douma hospitals with $30000 worth of medicines fuel ambulances and blood bags.

Madaya is a town of Al Zabadani in the Rif Dimashq Governorate along the Lebanese-Syrian border northwest of Damascus. It is home of 16000 locals and 19000 internally displaced persons from Homs and other cities.

Half of the population are children whose lives are at stake according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

The Peninsula

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