Medical supplies and other relief materials meant for the displaced people of Aleppo in Syria.
Qatar Charity (QC) has provided 65 tonnes of medical supplies to health facilities serving displaced people of Aleppo in Syria.
Funded by the Qatar Development Fund (QDF), the project aims at providing medicines and pharmaceutical products to mobile clinics and field hospitals catering to those suffering from bruises and acute, chronic cases, among others.
The medical supplies include anesthetics, antibiotics and intravenous fluids, primary health care medicines, bone fasteners, surgical consumables and intensive care medicine. Eight hospitals in Aleppo and Idlib countryside and UOSSM hospitals benefited from the medical supplies provided to save the lives of Aleppo people.
The project of medicines and medical consumables provision is part of Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (SHRP 2016), which is overseen by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaziantep. This project was approved as part of Health Cluster projects and was financed by Qatar Development Fund.
QC's regional office in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the Turkish-Syrian border, and the field teams in Syria are continuously on a high alert to meet the needs of the people displaced from Aleppo.
As part of its continuous relief efforts and "Syria… cold and hunger" campaign, QC is moving new caravan of trucks carrying foodstuffs and winter gears across the Turkish-Syrian border whereby sheltering 40,000 displaced people from Aleppo.
QC's relief teams facilitated the entry of 12 trucks that include foodstuffs, baby milk and, winter materials to cover the needs of 20,000 people across the Turkish-Syrian border.
Qatar Charity has provided five ambulances with advanced system services to evacuate, and offer health and surgical care to the people displaced from Aleppo. The ambulances arrived at Bab Al Hawa Border Crossing to help evacuate the wounded people, where the local authorities established temporary camps for the internally displaced people suffering from very critical health conditions.
There are severe humanitarian crises in Syria. According to the UN statistics indicate that 13.5 million people in Syria are in a dire need for humanitarian aid, and that 4.9 million people are in need for urgent assistance as they are living in hard-to-access areas or besieged. Some 6.3 million people are internally displaced, 58 percent are living below poverty line, 69 percent are living in extreme poverty, 12.8 million people are in need for medical support, seven million people have no food security, 2.8 million people have physical disabilities, and 1.75 children are out of school.
