Sunday January 8, 2023
A beneficiary receiving treatment under QRCS’s medical convoy mission in Somalia.
Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) recently concluded its eye surgery and anti-blindness medical convoy mission, carried out at De Martino Public Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
At a total cost of $85,535 (QR311,776), the project was coordinated with Somalia’s Federal Ministry of Health, the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS), and the Embassy of Qatar in Somalia.
The 17-day project was aimed at providing medical assistance for poor and displaced people with eye diseases in the Banaadir region, with a special focus on people with special needs and those living at camps in Mogadishu and surrounding areas.
It involved clinical examinations for 502 patients at the outpatient clinic, and eye diseases were diagnosed through fundus examination, optometry, tonometry, focal length, and ocular ultrasound.