the establishment of a joint crisis management to achieve 8 goals to address the health crisis in Sudan
The Arab Hospitals Association held a virtual meeting yesterday to discuss what is happening in the Arab arena in terms of developments in our Arab world and the Sudanese health sector. The meeting agreed on the following statement prepared by Dr. It says: Given that the region has gone through and is going through some crises and disasters.
(pandemics and earthquakes), conflicts and wars, which led to the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in areas of disasters and armed conflicts that affected health facilities and medical personnel, and conditions prevented the arrival of medical, operational and food supplies, and the arrival of patients to hospitals or their access to treatment, and hindered the medical evacuation of the wounded and the transportation of corpses that threaten the spread of epidemics With health facilities out of work, electricity and water cut off, and mass displacement, which exacerbates the worsening humanitarian conditions of the population, the sick, the elderly, children, newborns, and pregnant women.. This requires harnessing all local, regional and international efforts.
The statement added: The Federation of Arab Hospitals collectively believes that it is very important to establish a joint crisis management between the Arab League, Arab health ministers, the World Health Organization, and Arab health bodies and institutions to achieve 8 important goals, namely:
Developing legislation and laws related to the protection of health sectors, and ensuring their sustainability
Coordination and joint cooperation in rapid intervention to assist the affected areas and provide the necessary medical needs
Providing field hospitals for areas that need them
Providing health services to the displaced and refugees from areas of disasters and armed conflicts.
– Supporting and rehabilitating damaged health systems and restarting health facilities in the event of the cessation of conflicts and armed conflicts and the return of life to normal.
– High and continuous qualification and training of medical, technical and administrative cadres for rapid intervention in dealing with emergencies and large mass injuries, and safe and sound medical evacuation
Proactive interventions to prevent or reduce the spread of epidemics, contain them and treat them
Rehabilitation of all sectors and health systems to deal with crises, disasters, wars and conflicts.
