A high-profile Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) delegation met officials of the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) yesterday to explore opportunities for further co-operation and discuss issues of common concern.
MSF is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare.
QRCS executive director Fahad bin Mohamed al-Nuaimi, together with communications director Issa al-Ishaq and disaster management head Aiham al-Sukhni, welcomed MSF president Dr Meguerditch Terzian and UAE regional office executive director Mohamed Bali.
Al-Nuaimi gave an overview of the QRCS’s relief and development interventions done jointly with MSF in several countries like Syria and Iraq.
The talks also covered potential ways to strengthen the two organisations’ partnership and the latest updates of humanitarian situation in Syria and Iraq.
The QRCS and MSF officials believe that meeting the most stressing needs of conflict-affected communities, utilising the QRCS’s work on the ground in Syria and Somalia, will help improve the situation in both countries.
The QRCS has already worked with MSF Holland under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to open a paediatric department at QRCS’s surgical hospital in Tell Abyad, Syria.