Doha: The representation mission of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in the West Bank and Jerusalem has completed a surgical project, with a total cost of $182,067 (QR663,634).
Under its medical convoy programme in Palestine, QRCS sponsored cleft lip surgeries for children and urology surgeries for patients with renal disease, in cooperation with Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
The project was aimed at providing medical assistance to alleviate the suffering of the patients who need urgent surgical intervention, securing advanced medical services for the children born with cleft lip or cleft palate, developing the surgery departments at PRCS hospitals with medical and surgical equipment, reducing the patients on waiting lists for specialized surgeries, and saving the patients the high costs of treatment.
According to the final project report, operations were performed by local surgeons in the specializations of urology for 57 patients (up from the original target of 50), and cleft lip/palate surgery for 60 children. Varying from minor to medium-level cases, the beneficiaries were selected from the waiting lists of the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH).
The procedures were hosted by PRCS hospitals in the cities of Al-Bireh and Hebron. The operating departments at the two hospitals were supplied with necessary medical equipment, based on the list developed prior to the launch of the project.
Procured through a public tender, the supplies included basic operating tables, mayo tables, nephroscopes, ureteroscopes (adult), pump tube sets, retractors, cystoscopes (adult), self-retaining travers retractors, baby-poole suction tubes, and other devices/tools.
This is a vital project that meets the considerable need for such projects in different medical specialties. It had a good impact in providing medical aid, alleviating the suffering of poor Palestinian patients, supporting the operating departments at PRCS hospitals with the high-tech medical equipment to perform surgeries, and reducing the number of patients on waiting lists for specialised surgeries.
