Qatar Red Crescent Society launches surgical convoy in Sudan

Qatar Red Crescent Society launches surgical convoy in Sudan

Qatar Red Crescent Society launches surgical convoy in Sudan

September 17 2022 05:25 PM



The QRCS team at Hamad International Airport, before leaving for Sudan



QNA/Doha

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched a medical convoy to perform surgeries in the fields of general surgery and urology at Nyala Specialized Hospital in South Darfur region in Sudan.

QRCS said in a statement Saturday that this project is being implemented in cooperation with the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), through the volunteering of a medical team of its employees to participate in the medical convoy.

It noted that the medical convoy is scheduled to last for 8 days, with the aim of providing the necessary medical aid with the view to alleviating the suffering of the sick and injured in Darfur, reducing the risks that threaten their lives as a result of not obtaining the necessary surgical interventions, as well as mitigating the financial burdens on poor families, raising the efficiency of local medical staff to enable them provide better medical services, and reducing waiting lists in the surgery department of the aforementioned hospital.

QRCS explained that according to the project's work plan, 150 patients, 65 males and 85 females, will benefit from