Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa Hospital (HBKH)in Boutilimit, Mauritania, provided services to the local community and neighbouring areas as it recently dispatched multi-disciplinary medical convoy to Matamoulana, a village, 180km southeast of the capital Nouakchott.
The team was part efforts to deliver services to the largest possible number of local communities.
Qatar Red Crescent, which takes the responsibility for operating and managing the hospital, said the convoy was equipped with an ambulance, an ultrasound examination kit and other equipment, medicines for malaria, skin diseases, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs for pregnant women.
The one-day programme treated 384 people, including 15 percent men, 35 percent women and 50 percent children, a statement said, adding the general medicine clinic received 246 cases, the gynaecology clinic treated 95, and the ultrasound examination clinic received 43 cases.
The hospital was established in 2007 under the patronage of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, formerly through Qatari-Mauritanian Social Development Foundation, and now through Education Above All, a global initiative to build an international movement to contribute to human, social, and economic development by offering good education and welfare programmes and other initiatives.
On average, staff at the 73-bed hospital perform 40 surgical operations per month, with women and children being the biggest beneficiaries of the services.
QNA
