The representation office of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Yemen has recently completed the construction and equipment of an operating room, an intensive care room, and an incubator section at Al-Hafi Medical Complex in Sana’a, at a cost of $108,714.
Funded by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF), the new facilities will enhance the hospital’s medical capacity and ensure a safe environment for natural childbirths, C-section, and other medical and surgical services provided for refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and the host community.
This is part of a health and shelter response project for the neediest people in inaccessible areas of Dhale, as well as refugees and IDPs in Sana’a, a statement said Monday. The project involves support and rehabilitation of two hospitals and one health centre, as well as maintenance and rehabilitation of 500 makeshift IDP shelters at seven camps in Qa'atabah District.
QRCS also completed a health project to meet the health and nutritional needs of vulnerable people in inaccessible parts of Maqbanah District, Taiz, which involved the rehabilitation, operation and upgrading of two hospitals and four health centres.
Over the past eight years, QRCS implemented many health projects in Sana’a, Marib, Sa’ada, Al-Hudaydah, Taiz, Dhale, and Ibb, under the annual programme of humanitarian response plans funded by YHF.
Engineer Ahmed Hassan al-Sharaji, head of QRCS office in Yemen, said: “Working together with OCHA since 2017, we executed 11 health projects at a total cost of more than $16mn. These projects involved financial and medical support, rehabilitation, and operation of more than 75 medical facilities that had been almost out of service”.
