DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched a set of health projects in Gaza worth
QR8.33m, that involves medical education programme and support of health facilities. The capacity building projects for the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) is part of the Gaza Health Sector Development Plan 2016-17.
The list of projects includes equipment for specialised medical laboratories at medical education institutions of Gaza. Nurse education, cancer research, and toxicology laboratories will be equipped and maintained by QRCS. Also, cystoscopy services will be improved at several private hospitals to reduce demand for these services at public hospitals and shorten wait lists.
Other activities involve renovation and equipment of the department of cardiology at Nasser Public Hospital, Gaza’s second-largest hospital that serves Khan Younes’s 600,000 population. A major new project to be conducted in Gaza will support phenylketonuria patients, who are currently underserved.
There is also the support of the doctor specialist medical education programme, which is built upon previous projects by QRCS to build the capacity of medics in understaffed specialties.
Added to this, the medical workers at the Health Emergency, Disaster, and Crisis Management Center will be trained on dealing with crises and disasters recurrent in Gaza, like wars.
The total value of the new health projects amounts to $2.29m (QR8,330,790). Dating back to 2008, QRCS’s presence in Gaza has so far translated into more than $100m worth of projects in many fields, mainly health care.
