Dohaـ The Qatar Red Crescent launched a new initiative to support the Palestinian people, under the slogan “The Lifeline of Dignity and Life for Gaza,” by opening the door to volunteering for medical personnel from inside and outside the country, with the aim of preparing for the urgent medical response and providing emergency health care to the sick and wounded in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Regarding the nature of this initiative, the Director of the Relief and International Development Sector at the Qatar Red Crescent, Doctor Muhammad Salah Ibrahim, said that they are calling on medical personnel, from within the country and from different parts of the world, to join the medical teams that will contribute to providing support to the medical sector in Gaza in various vital medical specialties. .
Ibrahim added that the goal of these volunteer medical teams is to examine and treat thousands of cases that require basic medical intervention within the aforementioned specialties, in addition to performing complex surgical operations that require advanced medical expertise and equipment, and training local medical staff in Palestinian hospitals while providing advanced and urgent medical services.
He noted the importance of this support for the Palestinian medical sector, in light of the severe fatigue and pressure that medical personnel are suffering from, as a result of continuous work for more than a month, in conditions of war and targeting of the health infrastructure, adding that the Qatari Red Crescent will also work to provide the necessary medical supplies and equipment to enhance the capabilities of Local hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies.
Qatar Red Crescent has called for many initiatives since the start of the aggression on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
high demand
The Director of the Relief and International Development Sector at the Qatar Red Crescent revealed that the initiative succeeded, within just 48 hours of its launch, in attracting more than 700 volunteer medical personnel in various required specialties from inside and outside Qatar, calling on all medical personnel to join this noble humanitarian effort and contribute to providing care. Medical care for those in need in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past years, the Qatar Red Crescent has given top priority to supporting and building the capabilities of the health sector in the Gaza Strip, through a large and diverse group of projects and programs, the most prominent of which is the program to develop surgical services in Gaza by bringing in expertise and training. This project includes contracting with a number of doctors. Consultants to work in private hospitals in Gaza.
The number of doctors affiliated with the Qatar Red Crescent who are currently working in Palestinian hospitals is 44 doctors, and they are graduates of the “Amiri Medical Scholarships” program that the Qatar Red Crescent has implemented since 2003 in cooperation with Hamad Medical Corporation and the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and includes bringing in Palestinian medical personnel to study specialization in Qatar and Jordan, before they returned again to work in hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Despite the difficult field conditions resulting from the bombing of several cities in the Gaza Strip #GazaOffice continues #Qatar_Red_Crescent In cooperation with #Palestinian Red Crescent Distribution of food aid and personal hygiene baskets to about 20,000 displaced beneficiaries at Al Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/CxtWoGq8UG
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Various specializations
The specialties covered by Qatar Red Crescent consultants in the Gaza Strip vary depending on the hospital. At Al Shifa Medical Complex, consultants specialize in cardiothoracic surgery, urology, newborns, gastrointestinal endoscopy, hematology and oncology. At Nasser Medical Complex, consultants specialize in orthopedics, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, neonatology, and thoracic surgery.
At the European Gaza Hospital, the consultants cover the specialties of cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, newborns, and thoracic internal medicine, in addition to the specialties of newborns in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, ophthalmology and surgery in the Eye Hospital, and psychological treatment in the Psychiatric Hospital.
2023-11-09 15:40:21
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