Harasta National Hospital to be put into full service again within the coming two months

The Harasta National Hospital in Damascus Countryside will be put into full service again within the coming two months after it has completely got rid of destruction caused by terrorism, according to Damascus Countryside Health Directorate.

The achievement is made as other rehabilitation works in some hospitals in eastern Ghouta continue with the aim of restoring life to this area.

Since the liberation of the towns of Eastern Ghouta from terrorism in 2018, the Damascus Countryside Health Directorate has started a plan to rehabilitate and restore the seven hospitals in this area, Deputy Director of Damascus Countryside Health, Dr. Eyad Tejen told SANA.

The directorate has completed the rehabilitation of Harasta National Hospital with the aim of putting it into service within the next two months, while outpatient clinics are working currently on a partial basis, he said.

 On her part, Head of the Directorate’s Engineering Office Eng. Manal Al-Bar said that the rate of damage caused to hospitals in Eastern Ghouta because of terrorism reached 80 percent, pointing out that the rehabilitation of Harasta Hospital was carried out in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, at a cost of 2 million US dollars for reconstruction. She added that the hospitals’ equipments were provided by the World Health Organization through a Japanese grant of 4 million US dollars.

Hamda Mustafa