Mobile Clinic in Syria

Introduction

• Mobile health Facility – Life Saving & Sustaining
• Free medication
• 18 villages mainly in Western countryside of Aleppo and Northern Idleb Governorate
• Treats between 3000- 4000 monthly local residents and displaced people from Homs, rural Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, and Eastern part of Syria
• The mobile clinic(MC) was established a year ago
• 12 Trained employees
• 3 clinics (paediatrics, internal medicine, and gynaecology)
• System generating electrical power to operate the equipment (eco-friendly).
• From Children between 5 to 59 months, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and elderly.
• Average Cost per year: R2,5million

Why Mobile:

• Many displaced people
• Security purposes
• Lack of hospitals/ or clinics in this area, which requires a
• lot of traveling time to reach these centres.
• No income to pay for transportation.
• Private doctors cannot practice due to danger