In response to urgent humanitarian needs, Qatar Charity (QC) took the initiative to provide relief aid for the benefit of patients, emergency teams and medical personnel in hospitals in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in co-operation with the Qatar embassy in Khartoum, the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission.
The relief aid included more than 28 tonnes of food and ready-made meals, distributed to hospitals in Khartoum state, which suffer from food shortages because of the events, in co-ordination with officials in the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan. In the meantime, the work of the Sudan office continues to provide more aid such as urgent food for the neediest groups who suffer from severe food shortages.
QC was also able to repatriate the students of Taiba Education City to their families safely and is working to monitor the situation of its sponsored persons on a regular basis to provide support of all kinds. QC has 12,516 sponsored persons in Sudan.
QC is studying the possibility of working to respond to the displaced inside Sudan, especially in Port Sudan, and is also working to respond for the benefit of Sudanese crossing to Egypt, Chad, and South Sudan.
QC also targets Yemeni and Syrian refugees in Sudan, who are also suffering after they sought refuge in Sudan and were then exposed to the current Sudanese crisis.
The Monitoring and Preparedness Section of the Emergency and Relief Department of the International Operations and Programmes Sector at QC monitored the urgent humanitarian needs of those affected, which are food and non-food items, shelter materials, health services, clean water, sanitation services, personal hygiene materials and psychosocial support services.
Dr Muntasir Mohamed Othman, director of the General Department of Emergency and Epidemic Control at the Federal Ministry of Health and the official spokesperson for the emergency room, explained that the food assistance provided by QC helped a lot in continuing to provide health services. "We thank Qatar Charity for its generous support at a critical time when we suffer from a scarcity of food and medicine supplies," he said.
The Federal Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan praised the rapid response and intervention of QC to support the health sector with foodstuffs.
Moataz Ibrahim, director of the Organisations Department at UNHCR, said that the rapid response of Qatar Charity to help the needy came on time.
The patients, their companions, and the medical staff at Al Nou Hospital, Omdurman, expressed their thanks and deep appreciation for QC's quick response by providing food aid.
