Help delivers its First Shipment of Medical Aid more than 3 Million Afghanis to Herat Department of Public Health by Presence of Head and Candidate of Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan

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Help delivers its First Shipment of Medical Aid more than 3 Million Afghanis to Herat Department of Public Health by Presence of Head and Candidate of Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan

Date: 19. June. 2020

Place: Herat Department of Public Health

Help delivered the medical aid including Personal Protective Kits and Hygiene Parcels ( PPE kits, Facemask, hospital bed sheet, patients disposable cloths, bleach liquid, washing liquid, and hand sanitizers) that valued more than 3 million Afghanis to the Herat Department of Public Health by the presence of head and candidate of Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan and the Leading team of Herat Department of Public Health to be used by health care personnel and COVID-19 patients aiming to support the prevention of COVID-19 outbreak and spread in Herat province.

Mr. Zabihullah Monib the Help country director for Afghanistan at the first of his talk said welcome to the minister of Public health to Herat Province and explained about Help organization to the participants. Then he conveyed his satisfaction in cooperation with the health sector in this province and added that the Help has known its duty since the outbreak of the coronavirus to cooperate with the Herat Department of Public Health to prevent the outbreak of the coronavirus and to provide the necessary awareness of preventing and fighting against the coronavirus for its projects’ beneficiaries and people of the community.  He said that in order to start cooperation with the Herat Department of Public Health, this is the first shipment of our aid to this department according to the list of needs of this department. Mr. Monib at the end of his talk said: “We hope to use the opportunities and attract more aid to support the health sector and to provide more services to the health sector in this province”.

In the following, Mr. Osmani in his talk thanked Help for its assistance and cooperation with the health sector and called this equipment is the important requirement of the health sector in the fight against coronavirus. Then, Mr. Osmani and his team visited the aid shipment of Help organization.

Currently, the lack of protective equipment and kits is one of the challenges in the health sector in Herat province, the Help organization’s aid could be good support for health care personnel and patients at COVID-19 hospitals in this province.

Source: Help IT & Public Relations Department