Benghazi – The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdul Salam Aqila, was briefed during a meeting on the results of the field report from the committee tasked with assessing the health situation in the city of Kufra.
The committee, which included doctors, health inspectors, monitors, and experts in laboratories and public health, reviewed the results of its field tour during the meeting. The tour focused on monitoring health conditions, especially in areas where displaced Sudanese people are concentrated.
The committee confirmed that the city of Kufra is free from communicable diseases, including cholera, and presented several recommendations. These include: enhancing communication with the locations of displaced people and registering their numbers, redistributing ambulances and activating mobile clinics, monitoring water and food sources, implementing health awareness campaigns, and submitting periodic reports to follow up on the general situation.
The meeting is a follow-up to the tour recently conducted by the Undersecretary in Kufra, upon the directives of the Prime Minister, Dr. Osama Hamad. The visit included a number of medical facilities, most notably: the Women and Maternity Hospital, Atia Al-Kaseh Hospital, the Kufra Diabetes Center, Al-Hawari Hospital, and Al-Mukhtar Rural Hospital.
Dr. Abdul Salam Aqila affirmed the Ministry’s commitment to improving the quality of health services and providing necessary supplies, especially in remote and displacement-affected areas.