Al-Jumhuri Teaching Hospital Authority in Amanat Al-Asimah organized a press conference to present the statistical report on the medical services provided for the last quarter of the year 2023 AD, following presidential directives for the Authority to approve a free hospital for the poor and needy with the support of the General Authority of Zakat.
At the conference, the Chairman of the Authority, Dr. Muhammad Jahaf, reviewed the efforts made to provide health services to the sick and needy, with the contribution of the Zakat Authority during the past three months following the announcement by the President of the Supreme Political Council that the Authority’s services were free.
He said, “After the directives of the Leader of the Revolution and the President of the Supreme Political Council to receive sick poor and needy people for free at the expense of the Zakat Authority, the hospital received sick cases.”
He pointed out that the authority worked to study the problems to organize work mechanisms, rece
ive patients, and facilitate procedures for obtaining the health services provided to them, especially with the wide demand for hospital departments and clinics.
Dr. Jahaf stressed the keenness to improve and improve the medical services provided to citizens and alleviate the suffering of patients, pointing to the measures taken by the authority in this aspect.
He appreciated the interest and support of the Chairman of the Hospital’s Supreme Political Council to ensure the continuation and improvement of medical and therapeutic services provided to patients, and to raise the level of performance, stressing that the Authority succeeded in providing free services to patients through the combined efforts of medical, technical, nursing and administrative staff and their sense of responsibility in serving patients.
The head of the Republican Teaching Hospital Authority considered transforming the authority into a free hospital a radical change for the health sector, hoping that this experience would be generali
zed to the rest of the governorates.
He stated that the authority has achieved a qualitative leap in many services, and senior specialists and consultants have been attracted from various governorates to perform qualitative and complex operations, especially in the specialties of the liver, digestive system, burns, cosmetics, urinary tract, bones, eyes, and others.
He pointed out that there is an ambition for the Authority during the coming period in liver transplantation, as extensive studies are currently being carried out, benefiting from the experiences of a number of countries, as well as corneal transplantation. He pointed out that all these qualitative shifts in the Authority come as a result of activating the quality system and improving and improving medical services.
Dr. Jahaf called on the media to shed light on what the authority accomplished during the last quarter of the year 2023 AD and the qualitative advances it achieved in many specializations despite the scarcity of capabilities and the
current circumstances that Yemen is going through.
Source: Yemen News Agency