Support for Health Services in the Northern Aleppo Countryside – Phase V

Based on the successes of its previous phases and to ensure the continuation of essential health care services provided under previous phases, the Syria Recovery Trust Fund (SRTF) launched Phase V of the “Support for Health Services in the Northern Aleppo Countryside” project, to continue contributing to the Health sector in Aleppo Governorate.

Through this project and in collaboration with an Implementing Entity (IE), the SRTF aims to continue supporting and providing services in the existing health facilities including an Ambulance Response Network, one PHCC, one hospital, a Burns Treatment Hospital and an Epidemiology Laboratory, while also continuing to support an Oxygen Generator and the medical waste incinerators.

This is expected to:

• Improve access to reliable primary health care and specialised services Aleppo Governorate.
• Enhance the Ambulance Response Network services.
• Increase the availability and reliability of the available health information.
• Address the current challenges within the Health sector.
• Ensure the continued delivery of essential health care services.

This will be achieved by implementing the following:

• Maintaining emergency response services and expanding outreach, through the Ambulance Response Network.
• Continuing the provision of consultations, surgeries, diagnostics and pharmaceutical services at the PHCC, hospital and Burns Treatment Hospital.
• Continuing the provision of specialised reconstructive and burn care at the Burns Treatment Hospital.
• Sustaining diagnostic and surveillance functions critical for the detection of and response to communicable diseases at the epidemiology laboratory.
• Ensuring the continuous and reliable supply of medical oxygen through the oxygen generator, to supported facilities.
• Maintaining the safe collection, sterilisation and disposal of medical waste at the medical waste treatment facilities.
• Providing training sessions to all medical personnel and staff at the waste treatment facilities.
• Covering the operational costs of all facilities and staff.
• Covering the maintenance and operational costs of an oxygen generator.

This is anticipated to:

• Ensure the continuity of critical health care services.
• Improve access to equitable, quality primary and specialised health services.
• Strengthen the resilience of the local health system by sustaining the services, hospitals, laboratory and medical waste treatment facilities.
• Enhance institutional capacity and facility staff’s technical support.
• Safeguarding environmental health by maintaining functional medical waste treatment facilities, reducing risks of infection and pollution.
• Ensuring sustainability.

With a budget of EUR 965,000, the project will directly benefit at least 260,175 patients and 291 IE staff, as well as around 1.3 million people indirectly, over a period of six months.

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