5/1/2023
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 the State of Qatar in Khartoum, the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission.
The relief aid included more than 28 tons of food and ready-made meals, which were distributed to hospitals in Khartoum state, which suffer from food shortages because of the events, in coordination with officials in the Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan, and in the meantime, the work of the Sudan office continues to provide more aid. Urgent food for the neediest 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 Qatar Charity has 12,516 sponsored persons in Sudan.
Qatar Charity is studying the possibility of working to respond to the displaced inside Sudan, especially in Port Sudan, and is also working to respond 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 a 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 Programs 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, explained that 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," he said.
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 Organizations 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, and 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 by providing food aid.