A Qatari medical team arrived in Sudan on Monday to perform more than 100 surgical operations for patients at Osman Digna Hospital in Port Sudan, in cooperation with the Sudanese Ministry of Health, as part of the medical convoys donated by the Qatar Red Crescent Society and the Qatar Fund for Development.
Photos and video clips broadcast by local platforms showed the Sudanese Minister of Health, Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, the Governor of the Red Sea State, Mustafa Mohamed Nour, the Qatari Ambassador to Sudan, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Sada, and the President of the Qatar Red Crescent Society in Sudan, inaugurating surgical operations in the fields of urology, general surgery, pediatric surgery, and neurology, according to a statement by the Ministry of Health in the Red Sea.
The Sudanese Minister of Health praised the “continuous Qatari support for the health sector in Sudan,” noting that the ambassador has been working with the ministry to prepare medical aid and meet the needs of the health sector, according to the ministry’s statement.
The Ambassador of the State of Qatar affirmed his country’s “continuous support for Sudan since the beginning of the crisis and meeting the needs of the health sector,” noting that the support “included the medical and humanitarian fields and knowledge of the total need for medicines and medical equipment.”
The Qatar Red Crescent announced in a statement the “launch of the activities of the multidisciplinary surgical convoy in Sudan,” explaining that “in two days, 12 operations were performed out of a total of 130 operations that are targeted to be performed free of charge in the specialties of general surgery, urology, and pediatrics at Prince Osman Digna Hospital in Port Sudan.”
For his part, the head of the Qatar Red Crescent office in Sudan, Salah Al-Du’ak, said that these operations come within the multidisciplinary general surgery convoy organized by the Qatar Red Crescent with the participation of a number of doctors from the State of Qatar and Sudan, and that the convoy plan will continue to include the cities of Atbara and Kassala.
Urology consultant and head of the Qatari surgeons delegation, Abdullah Al-Naimi, confirmed that “the convoy includes a surgical workshop to exchange expertise between specialists in Sudan and Qatar for Development.”
As for the Director General of Osman Digna Hospital, Mohamed Kamal, he praised the partnership with the Qatar Red Crescent Society and the Qatar Development Fund.
He expressed his hope that the partnership would extend to include aspects of supporting the provision of consumables and the operations and emergency complex, adding that “next week will witness the performance of general surgery for 60 patients, followed by pediatric and neurosurgery.”