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Qatar Charity (QC)’s office in the Gaza Strip has been working on the second phase of its project for supplying those affected by the hostilities of summer 2014 with medicines at a cost of QR4,000,000.
The office will provide warehouses of the Ministry of Health (MOH) with drugs and medical disposables in order to help cover the shortage. The project is being implemented under QC’s programme for emergency intervention in Gaza.
The project aims to reduce the problems faced by health centres, hospitals and primary healthcare centres due to the severe shortage of drugs, medical disposables and laboratory supplies, especially in the surgical and kidney patients departments.
Mohamed Abu Halloub, QC’s office director in the Gaza Strip, said the intervention was necessitated by the siege imposed on the Strip, which affected all its sectors. The problems faced by the health sector adversely affected the quality and quantity of services offered to patients.
Abu Halloub said 15 contracts were signed with a local importing company to finalise the second phase of the project at a cost of QR3,910,307.52, which was originally QR7,534,000.
There was a shortage of medical items by about 45%. The medical disposables’ shortage rate had increased as well.
In addition, QC supported the health sector by implementing a number of projects that included preparing detailed site plans for the biggest medical building across the Strip.
The plans and designs are currently being prepared to build the Internal Medicine Hospital at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza city under the supervision of a group of local and international counsellors, at a cost of QR582,000.
Further, QC has implemented projects wherein it has equipped hospitals with electro-mechanic devices, supplied them with generators, added and replaced elevators, rehabilitated sterilisation systems and mechanical ventilation at a cost of over QR10,000,000. This year, and as part of its emergency intervention programme, QC has finished working on the first phase of the drugs and medical disposables supply project.
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