QRCS deploys medical team to perform 160 surgeries in Bangladesh – The Peninsula

QRCS deploys medical team to perform 160 surgeries in Bangladesh – The Peninsula

Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has deployed a delegation from Doha to carry out general surgeries in Bangladesh.

A medical team of consultants, doctors, and nurses from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Sidra Medicine volunteered to take part in this project.

Upon its arrival in Dhaka, the delegation was received by representatives of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) and the Embassy of Qatar in Bangladesh. The one-week medical convoy is aimed at reducing mortality and morbidity rates among poor patients, by providing free-of-charge general-surgery services for as many beneficiaries as possible, whether refugees at camps or the local community in Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf.

One development goal of the project is to build the capacity of the local medical professionals, to help them perform better, by exchanging experience with the medical team.

The members of the delegation are Dr. Jawhara Hamad Saif Al Qahtani (Resident Doctor), Dr. Ambika Anand (Senior Consultant), Dr. Suhail Mohamed Gamal Ahmed (Anaesthesia Consultant), Dr. Hassan Salem Baghazal (Senior Consultant), Dr. Sayed Mohamed Ali (Senior Consultant), Soha Hassan Ali (Nurse), and Dr. Izzedeen Gaafar (Medical Convoys Program Coordinator at QRCS’s Relief and International Development Division). In coordination with the Embassy of Qatar in Bangladesh, the medical team will perform