Relief work is in progress under the first phase of the Aleppo support campaign, called for by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, during the Qatar National Day celebrations in December 2016.
The campaign is conducted under the supervision of the Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities with the participation of five charities – Qatar Red Crescent (QRCS), Qatar Charity, Eid Charity, Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services, and Afif Charity.
Last Thursday, QRCS noted that 20 kits of medications and medical consumables have been delivered to health facilities in Aleppo and Idlib.
Some 17 kits have been given to hospitals and health centres while another three hospitals are expected to receive the remaining supplies to serve more than 150,000 patients.
Two mobile clinics have been deployed from Anjara Health Centre to Atarib town while the other from Darat Izza Health Centre to Maarrat Al Ikhwan. A number of physicians, nurses, midwives, and community health workers visited the households, which host internally displaced people, to offer primary healthcare, survey medical needs, distribute medications for free, identify malnutrition cases among children ageing six months to five years, and refer serious cases to specialist centres.
The two clinics have so far helped around 700 families (3,500 people).
Aid convoys also moved from Gaziantep, southern Turkey towards Aleppo through three Turkish-Syrian border crossings.
The first phase of the campaign is providing QR25mn worth of humanitarian aid, including food, tents, clothes, and medical aid for tens of thousands of Syrians who fled Aleppo City towards the northern and western rural parts of the governorate. Each Qatari charity is assigned to do its part of the relief intervention, depending on their humanitarian mandates.
QRCS staff distributing medical aid for Aleppo health facilities.
