Primary and Secondary Health Care for Conflict-Affected Populations through Piloting Sustainable Health Solutions in Deir-ez-Zor – Phase IV

Based on the success of its previous phases, the Syria Recovery Trust Fund (SRTF) launched Phase VI of the ”Primary and Secondary Health Care for Conflict-Affected Populations through Piloting Sustainable Health Solutions in Deir-ez-Zor” to ensure the continuity of the provision of essential health care services.

Through this project and in coordination with the Implementing Partner (IP), the SRTF aims to improve access to efficient, high-quality and sustainable health services in Northeast Syria.

The intervention is expected to:

• Enhance patients’ access to essential treatments and diagnostic testing.
• Improve operational efficiency through the piloting of cost reduction and revenue generating measure at the community and facility levels.
• Enhancing the resilience of health systems to protect public health and the environment, while reducing the risk of infections and injuries for health care workers, patients and the general public.

This will be done by implementing the following:

• Providing primary care consultations at one health care centre, including diagnostic services, medication management and malnutrition screening for children under five years old.
• Providing emergency services and referrals.
• Providing critical and inpatient care, including treatment at an intensive care unit (ICU) ward, x-rays, CT scans and laboratory services.
• Providing kidney dialysis sessions.
• Providing health awareness sessions.
• Providing remote and in-person training sessions for 100 health care workers across 15 facilities, on topics including medical waste management, nutrition, reproductive health, waterborne diseases and supply chain management.
• Providing psychosocial support and promoting wellbeing through mental health screenings, counselling sessions and referrals.
• Piloting a sustainable health care financing programme via a Family Health Care Card system.
• Establishing an Electronic Medical Records system to digitize health information systems across the health care centre.
• Establishing and operating a centralised medical waste management system for 15 health care facilities, integrated with the main health care centre this project will operate in.
• Strengthening infection prevention and control protocols, by providing training sessions on sanitation and waste handling.
• Piloting a sustainable funding model for the centralised medical waste management plant, by introducing a fee structure for organisations to dispose of waste.

This is expected to result in:

• An improvement in individuals’ access to efficient, high-quality and sustainable health services provided in Deir-ez-Zor.
• A reduction in the risk of infection and spread of diseases.
• An improvement overall health conditions in the area.

This project has a budget of around EUR 1.08 million and is expected to directly benefit 53,989 patients and their 269,945 family members indirectly. It will also benefit at least 719,000 residents in surrounding communities, including internally displaced people and host community members.

For more information about this project, please visit:

The SRTF Approves a Fourth Phase of a Health Project in Northeast Syria

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