A third mobile epidemiological clinic in the West Coast
English - Thursday 03 October 2019 الساعة 03:12 pm
Mocha – NewsYemen.net
The UAE Red Crescent Authority, on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, stepped up the West Coast epidemic control campaign at the third mobile medical clinic.
The medical team said that the launch of the third clinic is part of the emergency response campaign launched by the Crescent Authority early last month, to face the epidemics that have spread in the West Coast directorates with the rainy season.
The medical team confirmed that the three clinics provide medical services with an average of 100-120 cases per day, most of them are cases of fever and acute watery diarrhea, in addition to other medical conditions.
In recent weeks, the campaign included providing the health sector in the directorates of Mocha, Khokha, Hays and Tahita with successive batches of drugs and laboratory solutions to combat and treat fever, malaria and dengue cases, as well as cases of acute watery diarrhea.
The Red Crescent donated two Mokha General Hospital ambulances last month, to be able to reach remote areas outside the city, as the hospital itself has been donated an ambulance and another service.
The campaign also included the descent of the first and second mobile clinics to remote areas, namely the villages of Islet al-Matina, located on the coastline southwest of Al-Tahita Directorate in Hodeidah Governorate.
Eighty cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhea were recorded in Tahita Directorate within one week, before the UAE Red Crescent medical teams intervened urgently to stop the spread of the epidemic.
