Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has inaugurated the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Teaching Maternity Hospital in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, under a project to support health care for pregnant and breastfeeding women, at a total cost of $343,000.
In a statement on Wednesday, QRCS considered the project to rehabilitate and equip this unit, which was inaugurated by Director of Relief and International Development Division at QRCS Dr. Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, as a major intervention to meet the needs of beneficiaries, reduce their suffering, improve the services provided for them
The statement noted that this project would also contribute to addressing the issue of having to refer critical cases to other hospitals, due to the lack of ICU services at the hospital, which caused more difficulty for the patients.
The statement added that with the provision of high-tech ICU equipment up to the standards of Iraq's Ministry of Health (MoH), the hospital now qualifies for the Arab Board or any other medical facility certification that helps to improve the hospital's efficiency and rating. It will also be able to serve more beneficiaries, currently receiving as many as 6,700 patients per month.
In addition, there will be training courses - in which Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will participate - for the hospital's medical personnel to better use the equipment, thus ensuring the sustainability of the ICU department to continue to serve the patients.
