(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Fazeena Saleem | The Peninsula
Despite a hundred days of unjust blockade imposed on Qatar, all public and private health services across the country were delivered without any interruption.
The Ministry of Public Health and the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) had assured that there would be no shortage of medical supplies or medicines because of the blockade and there was no risk on the public health services.
The MoPH continued to provide all services in the health sector without being affected by the siege imposed on the country. It demonstrated the potential to sustain health services and deliver them at the same quality.
The Ministry also continues to implement all health projects that aim to maintain sustainable development of health services and increase the potential and capabilities of the health sector. HMC, the prime healthcare provider in the country continued to offer its world class services to patients and reach exceptional achievements.
Besides several other exceptional services, a new Breast Care Clinic at HMC's National Center for Cancer Care and Research, to provide diagnoses and arranges treatment of breast cancer for women in one convenient location was opened in mid- June. HMC has also performed a record number of eight organ transplant surgeries within a week, in June. It included five kidney transplants and three liver transplants. Further, a team of surgeons from HMC had performed an advanced procedure for the first time in Qatar to correct the abnormal spinal curvature of a nine-year-old boy.
HMC also hosts a number of global consultants with different expertise to facilitate patients in Qatar. As well as the, private pharmacies, private hospitals and polyclinics were not affected by the blockade and had no impact on the availability of medicines and medical supplies.
Also within a short span of time private hospitals and polyclinics started receiving medicines from new markets. They did not experienced shortage of medicines due to the ongoing blockade imposed on Qatar.
Besides, providing services, the health sector also showed their solidarity to the country's leadership. The MoPH, in collaboration with HMC and the PHCC, inaugurated three ‘Tamim Al Majd' (Glorious Tamim) billboards.
Those were located at MoPH, PHCC headquarters and at HMC's Bayt Al Dhiyafah. The initiative came up as a way to enable the leaders and employees of the health sector to express their loyalty to Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Minister of Public Health H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, unveiled the billboard in the presence of a number of leaders and employees of Qatar's public health sector organisations.
The billboards attracted large number of employees from the three health organisations who were keen to show their solidarity by writing messages of support for the leadership.
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