Renovating Afrin Hospital and improving the health situation in al-Shahba
Despite the capabilities and exceptional circumstances that the Shahba region is going through, our teams in the Kurdish Red Crescent have started a project to restore Afrin Hospital, which is visited by 13,000 patients monthly, and references from the regions and villages of Shahba, and receives their cases from clinics and ambulances, including performing surgeries.
The following sections of the hospital will be restored (operating room – laboratory – intensive care).
The restoration operations will last up to 60 days.
Continuing the distribution of aid in the villages of al-Shahba
Our teams in the Kurdish Red Crescent distributed aid and supplies to the families and displaced people residing in the villages of (Harbel – Umm Al-Housh – Umm Al-Qura) affiliated to Al-Shahba, where the aid included (360) bags of baby diapers, and (1200) shares of rice.
It is worth noting that since the earthquake occurred on the sixth of last February, the efforts of the Kurdish Red Crescent continue to provide health care and aid.
The assistance provided by the people of Sulaymaniyah continues to reach its beneficiaries
The assistance provided by the people of Sulaymaniyah continues to reach its beneficiaries
The refugees and those affected by the earthquake in al-Shahba areas in Aleppo are still benefiting from the relief assistance provided by the people of the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region through their campaign “Hawkha Matanin”, where our teams distributed sponges, blankets, and mats in addition to household items, wheelchairs for people with special needs, and a packages of baby milk.
Manbij- a Living Example for primary Health Care
Primary health care/PHC/ services target the needs of individuals, families and communities containing health and well-being in their comprehensive and interrelated physical, psychological and social aspects. It provides lifelong health care to the person as a whole, not limited to some specific diseases.
The /PHC/ guarantees getting comprehensive health care access for all people starting from counseling, prevention, treating, rehabilitation and palliative care. Currently, it plays the crucial role in managing the main reasons and risks for the bad health and well-being, including the new obstacles that could get them worse in the future. In addition to decreasing the cases that need hospitals and achieving the sustainable development aims concerning health and comprehensive health coverage.
To meet people needs and starting from the main health aspects, KRC dedicated a large portion of its services to provide PHC through 45 medical points distributed in cities, camps, hospitals, and mobile clinics in all NES. However, there are many departments (health educating, internal clinic- pediatrician- gynecology- Obstetrics- Leishmania-Labs- primary psychological clinic or psychological support- emergency)
Manbij center is a good example of providing primary health care to the locals and its countryside for more than three years. Ms. Malik Qassem, team leader, summarized the outcome of this center.
- Tracking epidemics-Corona virus- through triage chamber (this room recognizes the infected people before disease worsens, then they are directed to get the appropriate treatments)
- Tracking social issues (poverty that leads to malnutrition) through conducting visits to the center beneficiaries
- Following up chronic diseases
- Tracking environmental issues which may lead to mass medical cases such as diarrhea caused by water pollution.
In developed countries, such centers usually provide health-care service, but because of the current exceptional circumstances, our centers are providing wider health care, which burdened us with more tasks.
Qamishlo Road Lighting Project
The Kurdish Red Crescent, with support of Barcelona’ municipalities, is implementing a solar-powered lighting project by installing a solar array in three different locations, including lighting lamps, solar panels, batteries, and an inverter with all the necessary equipment and accessories, where each site has a technical room.
The project is implemented on two stages :
Through rehabilitating the lighting poles and doing all maintenance work, to be ready for the installation of lighting lamps.
Then the lighting devices will installe, where the technical rooms are ready for work, and follow-up devices maintenance continuously.
Target sites:
The first location: It starts from Al-Sharq Roundabout down to Traffic Roundabout.
The second site: It starts from Al-Baladiya Street down to Al-Bisheriya Bridge and Al-Murabba ‘, between Al-Baladiya Street and Al-Wehda Street, targeting five horizontal streets
The third site: it starts from the oven roundabout down to Al-A’laf roundabout and heart and eye’ Hospital Street.
The implementation of the first stage of the project has already started, and work continues to finish the first stage and start with second stage.