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QC and Almaha in deal for health care to the poor

Published: 13 Nov 2016 - 12:03 am | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 07:13 am
Faisal Rashid Alfahidh (right), Executive Director for Operations Management at Qatar Charity, and Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Naimi, General Director at Almaha Medical, exchanging documents after signing the agreement.

Faisal Rashid Alfahidh (right), Executive Director for Operations Management at Qatar Charity, and Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Naimi, General Director at Almaha Medical, exchanging documents after signing the agreement.

The Peninsula

Qatar Charity (QC) has signed a partnership agreement with Almaha Medical to provide health care to poor people and patients suffering from chronic diseases, in Qatar and abroad.
The agreement also seeks to impart health education to the public and support the disabled.
Faisal Rashid Alfahidh, Executive Director for Operations Management at Qatar Charity and Dr. Mohammed Bin Hamad Al Naimi, General Director at Almaha Medical, signed the agreement at the QC headquarters.  
Through the agreement, QC aims at addressing the significant shortage of medical staff in poor countries through preparing a comprehensive scientific plan to train a large number of nurses, paramedics and midwives.
The agreement consists of three main areas: First, Promoting the humanitarian mission of QC to improve health and prevent diseases by focusing on educational health projects; providing health care to needy people and people with chronic disease inside and outside Qatar and organizing medical campaigns locally and internationally. 
Second, providing medical aids that help fill the severe shortage of medical staff in poor countries and combating the most widespread and deadly diseases. Third, establishing a healthy platform to monitor the needs of people in all QC areas of intervention. 
Faisal Rashid Alfahidh, Executive Director for Operations Management at Qatar Charity, said that that the importance of the agreement lies in the joint organization of medical campaigns locally and internationally to reduce the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics, the mortality rate among children and pregnant women and provide basic health services (health centers, hospital, clinics, etc.)