Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) recently opened a residential centre for Syrian patients with cancer referred for treatment in Turkiye, as part of a larger project implemented by the Independent Doctors Association (IDA).
The project aims to ensure a safe and supportive environment for the patients and their families from Syria with no place to stay during their treatment in Turkiye. This, QRCS noted, would help alleviate their health and living burdens, improve their quality of life, and enhance their prospects of recovery.
For 11 months, the centre will host around 1,000 referred patients from Syria, and facilitate their access to specialised healthcare. It will provide appropriate accommodation up to medically recommended health standards, specialised nutrition programmes, transportation to and from Turkish hospitals, psychosocial support, interpreting, and physiotherapy.
In addition, the project covers some additional medical expenses not funded by the Turkish health system and provides one-time e-coupons to purchase food and non-food items from contracted stores.
Other components of the project include the rehabilitation and equipment of some facilities at the Al-Amal Association Centre, to increase its capacity and improve the care environment.
More than 5,000 persons from the patients’ families and community are expected to indirectly benefit from the project.
QRCS is also raising funds to provide chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs for 400 displaced and poor Syrian patients with cancer at the Oncology Centre in Syria. The cost of treatment is only QR10,000 per patient. To help save the lives of those patients, people can donate via the link https://qrcs.qa/dpc
