The second phase of the project reached more than 430,000 vulnerable people in Syria providing treatment for lice, scabies, leishmaniasis and epidemics.
Ongoing crisis and disruption mean continuous urgent interventions are needed to protect Syria’s health system from collapse. Since 2012 Islamic Relief has been supporting programmes to deliver quality basic healthcare for Syrian people.
The first phase of one of the most prominent projects, supported by German Humanitarian Assistance (Deutsche Humanitarian Hilfe), saw Islamic Relief provide equipment and disposable items as well as medical machinery that has been used to treat 33,000 patients so far. We also support the training of nearly 900 health professionals in emergency medical care, basic trauma surgery and other essential medical care courses.
The second phase of the project reached more than 430,000 vulnerable people in Syria providing treatment for lice, scabies, leishmaniasis and epidemics.
The project also reached out to breastfeeding mothers and patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as supplying health facilities with drugs and medicines needed to run intensive care units and operation theatres.
“We were in the playground when we heard the explosive barrel falling down. The strike threw me to the ground and I injured my thigh.” said nine-year-old Ahmed Omar from Aleppo.
Ahmed was taken to Al Sakhour Hospital, one of Islamic Relief’s supported health facilities, and had surgery that lasted five hours. Later, he was transferred to several hospitals for further treatment.
Ahmed said: “I woke up in the hospital. Without the operation here I could have lost my leg.”
With more than €4.5 million of support from the Humanitarian Assistance division of the German Federal Foreign Office since August 2013, Islamic Relief has revived health facilities, blood banks and training centres, providing equipment, tools and awareness campaigns.
We have supported facilities including Primary Health Care (PHC) centres, hospitals and medical points with trauma and intensive care drugs and disposable medical items. In 2016, the project expanded and now provides medical personnel with training as well as supporting physiotherapy, trauma and thalassemia (inherited blood disorders) centres with medicines and equipment, reaching 60 health service providers and benefiting an estimated 262,584 people.
Islamic Relief, with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office, has helped around 750,000 patients so far, covering areas of Aleppo and Idlib as well as the northern Hama countryside and Latakia.
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