Qatar Charity (QC) has started to establish 14 community-based isolation units in northern Syria, in co-operation with the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to benefit 2,800 people in camps at a total cost of $1.6mn.
The initiative came as part of the urgent response to the outbreak of Covid-19, aiming at protecting the internally displaced Syrians living in camps from the virus.
OCHA contributed to the project with a value of $830,000, while QC will contribute a value of $770,000 to these medical and non-medical units.
The community-based isolation centres, expected to be completely built at the beginning of next September, will provide an appropriate place to isolate Covid-19 suspects and confirmed mild cases, to prevent the spread of the pandemic in poor, especially densely crowded communities living in camps and displacement areas.
The project aims to provide life-saving and sustainable health services for all male and female members of all age groups, focusing on people with special needs from the internally displaced and host communities in 14 sub-districts of the Idlib Governorate, by establishing and supporting community-based isolation units that will provide a place for collecting samples, detecting suspect cases, and quarantining and monitoring confirmed mild cases.
This project works in co-ordination with other health NGOs responsible for activities (such as training health workers, health screening, observing, and following up) to form a coherent system that will efficiently contain the coronavirus from spreading and intensifying.
QC will construct and handover these isolation units to the responsible local health authorities of the region to operate them directly or through other partners. QC will also follow up the workflow of the isolation units after their establishment to ensure an efficient and effective workflow process.
Mohamed Wahi, director of QC’s office in Turkey, said this project came in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in northern Syria, in co-ordination and co-operation with the relevant UN agencies represented by OCHA and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He also noted that this project reflects the advanced position of QC in the humanitarian system that frames efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in northern Syria.
QC was one of the first organisations invited by WHO to be an active member of the Covid-19 taskforce in northern Syria.
The isolation unit consists of six large tents. Each large tent represents a wing for receiving patients for different purposes, and serves as pre-designed for influx of patients to ensure the isolation of suspect and confirmed mild cases and to provide them with treatment.
QC is one of the first organisations that will provide this distinguished service, which comes to complement the efforts made previously to provide 72 isolation tents for various health facilities in northern Syrian, in addition to providing personal protective equipment (PPE) for all areas of Aleppo, Afrin and Idlib countryside.
OCHA contributed to the project with a value of $830,000, while QC will contribute a value of $770,000 to these medical and non-medical units.
The community-based isolation centres, expected to be completely built at the beginning of next September, will provide an appropriate place to isolate Covid-19 suspects and confirmed mild cases, to prevent the spread of the pandemic in poor, especially densely crowded communities living in camps and displacement areas.
The project aims to provide life-saving and sustainable health services for all male and female members of all age groups, focusing on people with special needs from the internally displaced and host communities in 14 sub-districts of the Idlib Governorate, by establishing and supporting community-based isolation units that will provide a place for collecting samples, detecting suspect cases, and quarantining and monitoring confirmed mild cases.
This project works in co-ordination with other health NGOs responsible for activities (such as training health workers, health screening, observing, and following up) to form a coherent system that will efficiently contain the coronavirus from spreading and intensifying.
QC will construct and handover these isolation units to the responsible local health authorities of the region to operate them directly or through other partners. QC will also follow up the workflow of the isolation units after their establishment to ensure an efficient and effective workflow process.
Mohamed Wahi, director of QC’s office in Turkey, said this project came in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in northern Syria, in co-ordination and co-operation with the relevant UN agencies represented by OCHA and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He also noted that this project reflects the advanced position of QC in the humanitarian system that frames efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in northern Syria.
QC was one of the first organisations invited by WHO to be an active member of the Covid-19 taskforce in northern Syria.
The isolation unit consists of six large tents. Each large tent represents a wing for receiving patients for different purposes, and serves as pre-designed for influx of patients to ensure the isolation of suspect and confirmed mild cases and to provide them with treatment.
QC is one of the first organisations that will provide this distinguished service, which comes to complement the efforts made previously to provide 72 isolation tents for various health facilities in northern Syrian, in addition to providing personal protective equipment (PPE) for all areas of Aleppo, Afrin and Idlib countryside.