the awareness month of World Breast Cancer
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Annually, there are about 1.38 million new infected cases and 458,000 deaths due to breast cancer
(according to website Globocan estimates2008,the International Agency for Research on Cancer).
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women in the advanced and developing countries alike.
In recent years, cancer rates have been shown to be rising steadily in low- and middle-income countries, due to average life expectancy, higher rates of urbanization and adoption of Western lifestyles.
To this moment, the causes of breast cancer are not known so, the early detection is still a cornerstone to fight against the disease .
October is an awareness month of World Breast Cancer and with the passage of a year since the opening of the Kurdish Red Crescent Center for Early Detection of Breast Cancer on 8/10/2019 , a special committee of awareness and education started an awareness program about the disease, which will last for a full month, through several topics on prevention, methods of follow-up and cyclic checkup.
The center where locates in the western neighborhood in Qamishlo city, receives cases by a special team consiste of nurses, a radiologist and a psychological support department that help them to overcome the difficulties and fear of disease and how to behave with the treatment phase in the event of infection.
Since the last year, the center of the developed Mamograph device received about 951 cases of detection included six infected cases.
The Kurdish Red Crescent is training on the Ewarn system
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The Kurdish Red Crescent’s monitoring department continues to organize the general policy of its department also add studies and epidemiology departments . Recently, EWARN has been recognized in the north-east of Syria and Rojava, to add to the program of the monthly report (morbidity report).
We expect that these data will be collected periodically (daily, weekly, monthly) from most 20 points in all centers of the Kurdish red Crescent in all the cities and camps of Al-jazera and other points in Al-Shadadi and Deir Al-Zour countryside. This data will be sufficient to build objective studies and activate our early warning to get faster and better response also to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases
Reports and studies will be shared with all health authorities in northern Syria and also with WHO
Distributing (527) food baskets in Bareeka camp – Sulimania / Kurdistan Region
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On 17 / 1 / 2019, Kurdish Red Crescent in Sulimania, supported by Support and Sustain Children organization and in coordination with JCC, UNHCR, WFP and the administration of Bareeka camp, distributed (527) food baskets on Syrian refugees in Bareeka camp. Each basket contained (12) food items and the number of beneficiaries reached (2308) individuals.
Kurdish Red Crescent are going to continue with distributing these baskets to cover the remaining list of high vulnerable Syrian refugees according to UNHCR’s assessment in this camp.
Support for displaced people in northern Raqqa
/0 Comments/in Development/by heyvasorakurdTo response to Raqqa offensive, our team in Kobane and GireSIpe distributed Hygiene Kits for more than 1500 families those were displaced from Raqqa City.
The distribution areas were the camps and the villages northern Raqqa those hosted the IDPs , this operation were in coordination with UPP NGO and will be followed up until the end of March,
Our teams in Kobane and GireSipi are covering the health sector of the displaced people as well, through(Primary health care) mobile clinics in the north countryside of Raqqa and the camp,as well as (Secondary health care) through our fixed clinics and Hospitals in Kobane city
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