Eligible community members can book appointment for COVID-19 vaccine soon
Dec 31, 2020 Doha
Community members eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine will be able to call to book an appointment or to do that online soon, according to a post on Qatar Media Corporation’s Twitter handle @covid19qatar.
“Vaccinations at health centres will only be given to people with pre-arranged appointments and all other community members who do not meet the criteria for the early phase of the campaign are kindly requested to wait until it is their turn,” the tweet said.
It said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is working with the pharmaceutical companies to ensure the next shipment of vaccines arrives in Qatar as early as possible in 2021.
QRCS expands outreach in 2020
30 Dec 2020 - 9:08
QRCS provided polio vaccination for children in Syria.
The Peninsula
Doha: In 2020, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) redoubled its efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, mobilising all its resources to relieve the socioeconomic and health impacts on Qatar s vulnerable groups and around the world.
As to Medical Services, QRCS deployed its medical professionals everywhere to serve the patients at health centers, quarantine facilities, and outdoor service centers. Health educators delivered face-to-face and online lectures/courses amid full preventive measures. In total, these services were provided for 1,433,083 persons at the cost of QR404,462,858 mn.
QRCS intensified its medical, social, protective, informative, and voluntary activities locally and, at the same time, worked with counterparts in many host countries to protect their people against the outbreak.
30 Dec 2020 - 19:37
QNA
Doha: The free hotline 16000, dedicated to coronavirus (Covid-19) inquiries, received about 1.7 million calls since it was launched by the Ministry of Public Health in March.
The hotline was launched with the aim of answering public’s questions and inquiries related to Covid-19, in addition to enabling the public and healthcare staff to access main health care services provided by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC).
The hotline, which operates round the clock seven days a week, received more than 552,000 calls to request information or services related to COVID-19. While the rest of the calls were distributed to the other services provided by the line, a number of people with COVID-19 were able to contact the hotline to obtain urgent and quick care, which helped during the peak of the pandemic to facilitate the process of classifying cases and directing them to home quarantine or isolation facilities. It also he
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Doha: During 2020, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) redoubled its efforts to combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, mobilizing all its resources to relieve the socioeconomic and health impacts on the vulnerable groups in Qatar and around the world.
QRCS intensified its medical, social, protective, informative, and voluntary activities locally and, at the same time, worked with fellow National Societies National Societies in many host countries to protect their people against the outbreak.
In its capacity as a humanitarian auxiliary to the State of Qatar and an active member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, QRCS carried out many relief interventions in response to natural disasters in Lebanon, Sudan, and the Philippines, among others. It continued to back sustainable development plans at the host communities and had strong presence on the humanitarian diplomacy and advocacy front.