Qatar Charity Launches Health Campaign for Sudanese Refugees in Chad

Sudanese Refugees

Qatar Charity launched a free field medical campaign for Sudanese refugees in Chad, targeting around 2,300 refugees living in camps, as part of an urgent humanitarian response aimed at easing pressure on health services and improving access to treatment in displacement areas.

The initiative, implemented in Iriba area of Wadi Fira Region in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border, is being carried out through a temporary health clinic operating for several weeks.

The initiative comes amid extremely fragile health conditions in refugee-hosting areas, which suffer from limited medical facilities and shortages of staff and medicine supplies, making Sudanese refugees among the most vulnerable groups to health risks, particularly women, children, the elderly, and patients with chronic diseases.

The temporary clinic operates six days a week, providing integrated and free medical services, including general medical examination and diagnosis; measurement of vital signs and body mass index (BMI); basic laboratory tests; and the dispensing of medicines for common diseases such as malaria, diabetes, hypertension, typhoid, and respiratory illnesses.

It also includes maternal and child healthcare, management of chronic non-communicable diseases in line with approved treatment protocols, in addition to health education activities for patients, aimed at raising preventive awareness and improving daily health practices among refugees.

The clinic represents a temporary health intervention designed to fill an urgent gap in healthcare services for a limited period, until sustainable solutions are available to meet the growing needs of refugees and host communities.

(QNA)