“Shifaa” Health Project Seeks Providing Health Services to Children, Women in Hama Countryside

HAMA,(ST)- “Shifaa” is a health project launched in the city of Hama by Misyaf Charity Association in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF”. The project succeeded in providing all-out health services to 23 thousand children and women in Hama countryside in less than a year . It also sought proving the important role of civil society in supporting the health public sector’s efforts to enhance and improve health service rendered to citizens.

 Dr. Ahmed al- Druzi, Chairman of the Board of Masyaf Charity Association, explained in a statement to SANA that “Shifa” project aimed to provide free of charge comprehensive medical care to children, including newly born ones  and those under 18 years old, to pregnant women, lactating women and people in need particularly from the displaced families in the countryside of Hama.

 Dr. Bashar al-Bitar, the director of the project, clarified that the charity association started last December to implement a project aiming to provide health and nutrition care to mothers and children through establishing three health centers in the city of Masyaf and the towns of al-Mahrousa and Wadi al-Oyoun.  The health centers have provided medical services to 7 thousand women and 16 thousand children since it was launched.

 The nutrition team of “Shifaa” completed a survey targeting 13 thousand children and more than 4 thousand women in the towns of Wadi al-Oyoun and Al-Mahrousa and the surrounding villages.  It also completed the survey in Masyaf city and the villages of al-Bayda and al-Zeina. The survey targeted children from 6 months old to five years old as well as pregnant women.

The project’s health activities are scheduled to continue till the end of this year.

Nada Haj Khider