Qatar has always maintained strong support for Palestine in various ways including providing monetary aid, rebuilding houses, extending medical support, and advocating for the Palestinian cause at various international meetings.

Just last month, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gave directives to provide a financial grant of $360 million to the residents of the Gaza Strip for the year 2021.

The grant came within the framework of Qatar's continued support for the brotherly Palestinian people besieged in Gaza.

The Hamas movement had also praised Qatar's continuous and generous support for the people of Palestine and recognized its efforts toward implementing several important projects.

Now, in a bid to support dialysis services in Gaza, the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has donated 11 dialysis machines for hospitals in Gaza.

The contribution falls under QRCS’s Gaza Dialysis Services Support project that facilitates the operations of three hospitals at a total cost of $486,000.

The hospitals are managed by the Ministry of Health in Gaza and aim to provide quality health services to patients with kidney failure.

In order to enhance dialysis services in Gaza, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) donated 11 dialysis machines for hospitals of Gaza's Health Ministry. Being part of QRCS's Gaza Dialysis Services Support project, this contribution serves 3 hospitals. #QNAhttps://t.co/D27iNh7Gt8 pic.twitter.com/55XbHLBX9C

— Qatar News Agency (@QNAEnglish) March 14, 2021

Head of QRCS’s representation mission in Gaza, Dr Akram Nassar underlined that the initiative supports the effectiveness of dialysis departments at the Shohadaa Al Aqsa Hospital (six machines), the European Hospital in Gaza (four machines), and the Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hospital (one machine).

“This intervention is part of QRCS’s efforts to upgrade dialysis services. In 2018, we accomplished a similar project, under which 10 dialysis machines and medical consumables were supplied for dialysis departments at some hospitals of Gaza,” Dr Nassar highlighted.

On the significance of the initiative, Director of the Shohadaa Al-Aqsa Hospital, Dr Kamal Khattab commented, “The machines newly provided by QRCS would mark a significant enhancer of the result rates at the hospital’s dialysis department.”

“Currently, we have 18 machines, and we face constant difficulties with low result rates of 50-60 percent, due to the recurrent machine breakdowns, lack of spare parts amid the blockade, and repetitive power cuts that cause machines to stop working suddenly,” he described.

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Source:  QNA