QRCS opens first dialysis center in northern Syria’s Ras Al-Ayn

Among the supplies were 15 dialysis machines, medical consumables, pharmaceutical drugs, and fuel.

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has inaugurated the first dialysis center in Ras Al-Ayn City, northern Syria, in cooperation with the Turkish competent authorities and the local partner, the Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA). Being the only medical facility providing such vital services in that area, the opening ceremony of the new center was attended by Deputy Governor of Sanl?urfa Province, Head of QRCS’s mission in Turkey, Chairman of SEMA International, and Syria Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator at the Turkish Red Crescent. The project is aimed at reducing the mortality rates resulting from insufficient specialized health care services for patients with chronic kidney failure, by providing life-saving dialysis services, as well as to give as many patients as possible access to such services, by supporting/creating dialysis centers in the northern parts of the country. Under the $1,202,627 project, a total of 15,534 medical kits were supplied, to cover the needs of dialysis sessions at 10 dialysis centers for three months. These provisions will help 446 patients to receive treatment.