Hasakah-SANA

The health and nutrition project implemented by Syria Al-Yamamah Foundation was launched today and covers a number of areas and population centers in the governorates of Al-Hasakah and Al-Raqqa by providing services related to health and nutrition of children and pregnant and lactating women for the third year in a row.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Syria Al-Yamamah Foundation, Saeed Al-Khodr, said in a statement to SANA correspondent that the project contributes to providing health services for children and women in light of the current circumstances, and the sabotage of government health facilities in the region, and the urgent need to provide health service, especially children, pregnant and lactating women.

For his part, the Director of the Health and Nutrition Project at the Foundation, Mohamed Badr, confirmed that all necessary measures have been taken to launch the project, as cadres are now subjected to courses and workshops, and the project's mobile teams to include the largest possible number of beneficiaries, where malnutrition cases will be targeted and treated for children from 6 months to the age of five.

Badr continued: The project targets pregnant and lactating women, detecting their malnutrition and treating them through fixed clinics in the city of Hasakah, Malikiyah and Jawadiya, in addition to teams to cover the countryside in Malikiyah and Jawadiya, and in Raqqa governorate in the second district of Tabqa city and teams to cover Al-Jarniya and Mansoura in the countryside of Raqqa, pointing out that the project will provide all kinds of nutritional supplements for malnutrition.

He added that the project provides dozens of job opportunities for the people of the areas in which the project is implemented, specifically those with health and medical certificates, in addition to guard workers, employees and drivers, and contributes to securing temporary financial stability for them.

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