Qatari Charity Organizations Undertake Effective Humanitarian Role in Sudan's Wound Healing

 

Doha, June 19 (QNA) - The State of Qatar is one of the first countries to initiate the launch of an urgent relief campaign in repose to the deteriorating situations being witnessed by Sudan due to the bloody conflict that erupted on April 15, 2023.

 Consequently, Qatar scrambled to launch an urgent air bridge through which it has provided 301 tons in food and medical aid and evacuated 1784 Qatari ID holders.

The State of Qatar announced that it would co-chair a high-level pledging conference in Geneva Monday to support the humanitarian response in Sudan and the region in partnership with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, and the United Nations, represented by the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the European Union, alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The State of Qatar co-chairs this conference in the context of its constant support for the brotherly Sudanese people through its charitable organizations, where Qatar Charity (QC), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) and Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) undertook effective role in the crisis, in terms of providing effective support to counter the deteriorating humanitarian challenges and crises.

Meanwhile, QC revealed that the total number of beneficiaries from the aid that were provided to the people affected by the conflict in Sudan reached over 70,000 persons until Jun. 4, 2023, and continues to provide aid in three major fields: food supply, shelter and health in collaboration and coordination with QFFD.

In its statements to Qatar News Agency (QNA), QC confirmed that it had provided aid to three main states; namely Port Sudan, Al Jazirah and Northern Sudan, in addition to providing essential support to Sudanese people who are crossing the Chadian borders due to crisis in shelter and food, pointing out that it continues to deliver shipments of food items and other materials via the Qatari air bridge in collaboration with QFFD and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The nineth air shipment arrived in Port Sudan on Jun. 4, 2023, with 30 tons of food baskets onboard, QC added, pointing out that the total number of food items shipments it had provided through the Qatari air bridge reached tens of thousands of tons. It noted that the total number of beneficiaries from the food items distributed within the Red Sea camps and Al Zahraa camps in Al Jazirah state and Arqin crossing on Sudanese-Egyptian borders reached 35,834 beneficiaries, including 30,000 hot meals that were distributed to the Red Sea and Al Jazirah states.

With regard to health, QC established a mobile medical clinic that provides medical services to patients in camps, where QC visited 13 shelter camps, conducted medical examinations for southlands of  patients, provided free -of -charge medicines and treatments to stranded patients and displaced persons in Port Sudan, in addition to providing blood bags and medical solutions, along with a myriad of blood-test devices that were distributed to a variety of hospitals in Al Jazirah, Red Sea and Northern Sudan states.

Pertaining to sheltering operations, QC asserted that it had provided relief aid in shelter materials to Sudanese people who are crossing to the Chadian borders due to the crisis to refugees in Chad, where 500 tents were provided to shelter 3000 persons. 

It affirmed that it would strive to provide relief aid in food and health fields in several Sudan's states and is poised to carry out projects for 25,360 beneficiaries through providing mobile clinics, dialysis medication, kidney plantation essentials, as well as water sanitation projects for those who are affected by the conflict, including stranded people in Port Sudan and Arqin crossing, where drinking water and toilets would be provided.

In the same context, QRCS launched an urgent relief campaign under the slogan: "Help Sudan" in response to the deteriorating situations being witnessed by Sudan due to the conflict which targets the collection of QR50 million to provide relief aid to 100,000 families, including 700,000 persons. The campaign will last for 18 months to save lives and alleviate humanitarian suffering of the affected people.

In statements to QNA, QRCS confirmed that the projects will focus on providing support in heath, shelter and food security for people in the affected areas, in lockstep with local associations, adding that projects implementation includes a two-pronged phase, the first one is "Urgent Relief" project which is due to be carried out during 6 months and includes health service, non-food items, food items, water and sanitation services, the second phase includes "Recovery" during 12 months, supply of the rest of the medical equipment required for hospitals, supply and receipt of required ambulances, supply of medicines and medical consumables, supply of laboratory materials, sterilization materials and medical supplies, as well as provision of gift vouchers to meet the basic needs of 500 families who lost shelter for a period of 12 months, as well as  provision of non-food relief aid to the affected families, restoration and repair of damaged homes (500 homes) and furnishing of repaired homes.

To follow up on activities and procedures, QRCS activated the Disaster Information Management Center to obtain latest news on the armed conflict with data and statistics, in addition to information pertinent to all response activities it had carried out, and subsequently it had dispatched a relief aid team consisting of four persons from its office in Doha, in pursuit of supporting Sudan's office. (QNA)