Patients at the Dar Alshafqa hospital in Yemen.
Qatar Charity (QC) has provided funds to a hospital in Yemen offering medical services free of cost to poor patients suffering from renal diseases and those fighting with cancer.
The beneficiary hospital, Dar Alshafqa, operating in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, badly needed financial support to continue the services because philanthropists supporting the hospital were unable to provide donations due to the unrest in the country.
The operational cost of Dar Alshafqa is QR470,000 annually, in addition to QR220,000 for food and other expenses, including helping patients in their treatment and transportation. QC contributed through a charitable contribution from a benefactor from Qatar in supporting the operating cost of Dar Alshafqa.
The QC support contributed to reducing the suffering of kidney and cancer patients coming from the Yemeni provinces to Sanaa, where Dar Alshafqa provides them with food and transportation to and from hospitals.
Dar Alshafqa was founded in 2008 and it has served about 3,000 patients, providing them with adequate shelters, food, and transportation to hospitals for treatment. Yet, the situation has worsened after the recent crisis in Yemen as many people were displaced from their provinces and dozens of patients came to Dar Alshafqa which already suffers from lack of facilities to accommodate the growing number of patients.
The support of the people of Qatar through the QC has provided part of the operational budget which contributed to saving dozens of homeless patients, said Mansour Alghatrifi, Director of Dar Alshafqa.
