This project mainly provided support to IDPs who were displaced to Northern Syria. Direct beneficiaries include 25,200 children, 396 men and 1,210 women who are newly displaced and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. It targets people with special needs, including girls and boys at risk, unaccompanied and separated children, and people with disabilities.
The project aims to support and expand the existing Pediatric Department and Intensive Care Unit at Shafak Specialist Women’s Hospital. The proposed facility has been approved by the World Health Organization to be a referral center at the sub-district level. With the support of UNICEF, the Department of Pediatrics will be expanded and will provide services to children in Ma’arra. Misrin (Idlib District) and surrounding areas This will provide 6 days a week outpatient services and 24/7 inpatient service, including care for newborns and premature babies, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), support and treatment of malnutrition services Moderate and severe acute The proposed facility will be a referral center for all primary health care centers and surrounding areas and will continue to provide secondary health care and obstetric services through an existing health facility Shafak will contribute to this component by supporting the referral capacity of the hospital by operating an ambulance that will be Ready to refer specific cases to Turkey.
Continuing to provide secondary health care and surgical services through the existing health facility in the town of Ariha in Idlib countryside, which includes a surgical unit. Shafak proposes through UNICEF emergency response to continue to support this facility that this is the only facility that provides surgical services in the entire Jericho sub-area of Idlib countryside and is currently supported by Shafak through the UNICEF Fund. The proposed services aim to improve the access of emergency cases, especially women and children, to surgical and medical care and emergency obstetric services in Idlib countryside.
Project activities or phases:
Supporting and expanding the current Pediatric Department and Intensive Care Unit in (Shafak Specialist Hospital for Women and Children).
Continuing to provide secondary health care and surgical services through the existing health facility in the town of Ariha in Idlib countryside, which includes a surgical unit. Shafak, through UNICEF’s emergency response, proposes to continue supporting this facility (the Jericho Surgical Unit).
Work areas: Idlib – Maarrat Misrin, Jericho
Number of beneficiaries: 26800