QRCS enhances maternity care services in Iraq

Doha, The Gulf Observer: Dr. Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, Director of Relief and International Development Division at Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), has inaugurated the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Teaching Maternity Hospital in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, under a project to support health care for pregnant and breastfeeding women, at a total cost of $343,000.

The opening ceremony was attended by HE Meshaal Abdullah Al Hajri, Acting Consul General of Qatar in Iraqi Kurdistan, Omed Khoshnaw, Erbil Governor, Hawri Ehsan, representative of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Dr. Dlovan Mohamed Fatih, General Director of Health in Erbil, and many local officials.

The ICU rehabilitation and equipment project is a major intervention to meet the needs of beneficiaries, reduce their suffering, improve the services provided for them, and address the issue of having to refer critical cases to other hospitals, due to lack of ICU services at the hospital, which caused more difficulty for the patients.

With the provision of high-tech ICU equipment up to the standards of Iraq’s Ministry of Health (MOH), the hospital now qualifies for the Arab Board or any other medical facility certification that helps to improve the hospital’s efficiency and rating. It will also be able to serve more beneficiaries, currently receiving as many as 6,700 patients per month.