Tribune News Network
Doha
In response to urgent humanitarian needs, Qatar Charity took the initiative to provide relief aid for the benefit of patients, emergency teams and medical personnel in hospitals in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in cooperation with the Embassy of Qatar in Khartoum, the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission.
The relief aid included more than 28 tonnes of food and ready-made meals, which were distributed to hospitals in Khartoum state, which suffer from food shortages because of the crisis, in coordination with officials in the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan.
Qatar Charity’s Sudan office continues to provide more aid by delivering urgent food for the needy groups who suffer from severe food shortages.
Qatar Charity was also able to repatriate the students of Taiba Education City to their families safely and is working to monitor the situation of its sponsored persons on a regular basis to provide support of all kinds, as it has 12,516 sponsored persons in Sudan.
Qatar Charity is studying the possibility of responding to the displaced inside Sudan, especially in Port Sudan, and is also working on response for the benefit of Sudanese crossing to Egypt, Chad and South Sudan. Qatar Charity also targets Yemeni and Syrian refugees in Sudan, who suffer from the crisis after they sought refuge in Sudan and were then exposed to the current Sudanese crisis.
The Monitoring and Preparedness Section of the Emergency and Relief Department of the International Operations and Programmes Sector at Qatar Charity monitored the urgent humanitarian needs of those affected, which are food and non-food items, shelter materials, health services, clean water, sanitation services, personal hygiene materials and psychosocial support services.
Dr Muntasir Muhammad Othman, director of the General Department of Emergency and Epidemic Control at the Federal Ministry of Health and the official spokesperson for the emergency room, said: “The food assistance provided by Qatar Charity helped a lot in continuing to provide health services. We thank Qatar Charity for its generous support at a critical time when we suffer from a scarcity of food and medicine supplies.”
For its part, the Federal Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan praised the rapid response and intervention of Qatar Charity to support the health sector with foodstuffs.
Moataz Ibrahim, director of the Organisations Department at UNHCR, said that the rapid response of Qatar Charity to help the needy came on time and he expressed his appreciation for the efforts of Qatar Charity and its employees to deliver the necessary food aid at a time when it is difficult to move. He added, “This is a great and appreciable act and a historic and courageous step.”
The patients, their companions and the medical staff at Al Nou Hospital, Omdurman, expressed their thanks and deep appreciation for Qatar Charity’s quick response to provide the food aid.
