(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) initiated an urgent humanitarian intervention to relieve the city of Douma, Syria, bombarded together with other parts of the beleaguered Eastern Ghouta.
The clashes have claimed 135 lives and injured 400, mostly children, women and elderly.
Douma, about 9km northeast of Damascus, is the centre of Rif Dimashq Governorate and the administrative centre of Damascus Ghouta, home to 2,196,000 people who suffer difficulty securing basic needs due to lack of money and scarcity of food, medical and relief supplies.
As the humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta worsened, International Humanitarian Relief (IHR) called on Arab and world organisations to help the sieged population of Douma.
It warned that the severe deterioration of security, medical and humanitarian conditions will make Douma "unlivable". The three-year siege has depleted the district's resources and population. Amid a serious lack of medical, ambulance and surgical requirements, the number of injuries is higher than the capacity of the town's hospitals and health centres.
As the first to respond to the call, QRCS staff in Syria utilised the society's legal capacity as an internationally recognised humanitarian organisation whose vehicles, facilities and staff are protected under international laws and conventions.
Based on monitoring of the situation, a plan was developed to continue to support the distressed, by providing $30,000 (QR109,143) worth of ICU and recovery medical supplies for hospitals receiving the injured.
The process was coordinated with local partners to purchase first aid medicines and oral/venous antibiotics, fuel, anaesthetics, an ambulance, 500 blood containers and logistics.
Earlier this year, $548,095 (QR1,994,960) worth of winter and food assistance was provided for 57,250 people in several districts, including 25,600 blankets, 384 tonnes of heating wood and 5,000 six-kg food packages.
Last Ramadan, QRCS distributed daily Iftar meals to 22,145 Syrian families in Eastern Ghouta.
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