(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
DOHA: The Qatar Charity helped perform surgeries for 600 poor patients last year under the Poor Patient Assistance Project, which was implemented in cooperation with six private hospitals in the various governorates of the Gaza Strip.
The cost of these operations conducted with the support of philanthropists in Qatar, amounted to QR2.8m, covering or contributing to the cost of the entire operations for poor patients at health centres and non-governmental hospitals, said a release.
Eng. Mohammed Abu Halub, Director of the QC office in the Gaza Strip said that the project also covers the cost of some medicines, laboratory and diagnostic tests for poor patients.
The project also provided financial coverage for performing the surgery and staying at hospitals, stressing that the proportion of the QC contributions ranges from 30% to 100%, depending on the patient's conditions.
Abu Halub said that the idea of the project is to support patients who need surgery that cannot be implemented in government hospitals because of the long waiting lists of patients.
'We thank Qatar Charity for its efforts to support and care for the poor patients, said Dr. Saeed Al Shaer, Director of Dar Al Salam Hospital, one of the partner private hospitals, stressing that the project managed to bring the smile back to lips of the poor patients.
'We hope that the size of the benefit of this project will expand and a larger segment of patients will take advantage of it, especially as it is not a secret that in the Gaza Strip, more than a quarter of one million populations is unemployed and they do not have any sources of income Al Shaer added.
The QC Office in the Gaza Strip, under the framework of its health project, has recently contributed to improving the surgical services at the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, by providing Harmonic Scalpel, a surgical instrument, in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
About 350,000 people benefit from services provided under the project. The lack of the laparoscopic instrument has led to increasing waiting lists of patients to receive health services, thus putting them at risk of complications and deterioration of their conditions.
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