Description
The project will respond to the urgent medical needs of the conflict-affected population, and will contribute to reduction of its morbidity and mortality by strengthening the technical and operational capacity of Al-Rastan hospital in besieged area north of the city of Homs. Selected area of the intervention suffers from long-term lack of material and human resources for provision of quality emergency health care and urgent care for reproductive health, there is lack of proper equipment for comprehensive diagnostics and for management of chronic, non-communicable and communicable diseases. Therefore, in addition to assuring health personnel, equipment and the medical material for selected hospital, the project will ensure functional referral system for patients in critical state from community to hospital. To increase the access of conflict-affected population to medical care, the project will support the operation of mobile ambulance in catchment area of selected hospital, which will transport patients with life-threatening injuries and diseases and also women in labour. In order to ensure uninterrupted operation of the emergency units, the project will support the supply of electrical energy too. The emergency communication will be assured in form of two-way radios. The project will increase capacity of local health personnel and this will fill a gap in the provision of emergency and traumatology health care, reproductive health care and urgent comprehensive obstetric care as a part of a comprehensive management of childhood diseases. The project will directly support and enhance ongoing project of the mobile medical unit supported by Slovakaid funds