QRCS intensifies early recovery efforts in northern Syria

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has intensified early recovery efforts in northern Syria, deploying doctors and other personnel to provide patients with medical interventions.
QRCS allocated $2mn for emergency response and a medical delegation was deployed from Doha, consisting of physicians and nurses in several specialties (general surgery and trauma, vascular surgery, operating nurses, psychiatric consultant, emergency medicine specialist, hand surgeon consultant, paediatric cardiologist, and anesthesiologist).
So far, QRCS noted that the medical delegation has completed 60 surgeries, 186 medical examinations, and 42 mental health consultations at Idlib Specialised Surgical Hospital.
Another medical delegation was also deployed to Turkiye and to northern Syria to help perform critical surgeries for earthquake victims. The second delegation has 13 volunteer doctors with various medical and surgical specialties, as well as considerable experience in dealing with complex cases.
The second team joined the first team of eight doctors, who are currently performing major surgeries at the hospitals in northern Syria, in addition to informative and training sessions for the medical personnel working there.
The latest delegation was deployed Wednesday to the disaster zone, comprising two volunteer doctors who joined the previous medical professionals to help Syrians and alleviate their suffering.
QRCS’ Relief and International Development Division director Dr Mohamed Salah Ibrahim met with Turkish Red Crescent president Dr Kerem Kinik at the Gaziantep chapter Wednesday to discuss the urgent needs of earthquake-affected people in Syria and Turkiye, and the contributions by both National Societies to the ongoing humanitarian response.
The meeting was attended by Mazin Abdullah Salloom, head of QRCS’ representation mission in Turkiye, and Fatih Gokhan, director of the Turkish Red Crescent’s Gaziantep chapter.
There have been four mobile medical clinics in the specialties of internal medicine, paediatrics, mental health, and nutrition. They are providing health, psychological, and nutritional services across northwestern Syria.
QRCS’ field personnel are mobilised to provide relief for affected people in northwest Syria. Their interventions cover several sectors, such as shelter, food supply, and non-food items (NFIs).
According to QRCS, there are plans to construct a new residential village in northern Syria, consisting of 300 units of 60 sqm 2BHK concrete apartments, with all infrastructure (roads, gardens, service facilities, mosque, school, clinic, and shops). The new residential complex will protect the privacy, security, and dignity of the displaced families whose homes were damaged in Jindires and Harem, Idlib Governorate.
The airlift shipments continue to be deployed from Qatar to Gaziantep Airport in Turkiye, and subsequently into Syria. Seven trucks loaded with various forms of aid have recently arrived, including four shipments of medical equipment/consumables. More field personnel are being deployed into the disaster zone, to take part in the relief operations, setting up tents and distributing aid to the earthquake survivors.