Call for setting up free medical treatment camps

SANA'A, Sep 21 (Saba) - Minister of Public Health and Population
Abdul Karim Rasi affirmed the importance of setting up
whole-integrated medical treatment camps to treat limited income and
remote areas patients.

The statement was made on a visit by the minister to the sixth
22nd May camp which started yesterday and being organized by the
Medical Insurance Unit at the Republican Guards.

The camp will last six days at the school of the martyr al-Hindwanah
at the Hezyaz Sawad area. Rasi praised the camp equipped with all
treatment needs and drugs being allocated for free treatment.

He familiarized himself with its sections which received about 2754
different cases during the past two days. The camp includes 40
specialist doctors in various specializations and 105 medical cadres
who treat different illnesses.


Rasi expressed the ministry readiness to support the camp, urging
the ministry concerned bodies to create common camps. He also
ordered a fund of YR 5 million to buy drugs and other requirements
at the camp.

During the past two years, the Republican Guards established five
medical camps with which about 86 thousand people took advantage and
about 400 surgeries were performed. In the wake of the Eid ul-Fitr (
lesser Bairam) similar camps would held in the provinces of Aden,
Taiz, Hodeidah, Dhale and Lahj.
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