Hodeida-Saba :
The ministers of Social Affairs and labor, Samir Bajala, and transport and Public Works, Mohammed Qahim, inaugurated today the Centers of Prosthetics, prosthetic devices, diagnostic and interventional radiology at Al-Thawra General Hospital Authority in Hodeida Governorate.
Bajala and Qahim, together with the undersecretaries of the ministries of foreign affairs and expatriates for the international cooperation sector, Ambassador Ismail al-Mutawakel, and health and environment for the care sector, Dr. Mohammed Al-Mansour, were briefed on the services and equipment at the prosthetics Center, which includes the Departments of evaluation, thermal gypsum, shaping, casting and installation of limbs, training and rehabilitation, physiotherapy and assistive tools, with the administration and public facilities.
The Diagnostic and interventional radiology center includes three units for cardiovascular catheterization, magnetic resonance, and axial tomography in addition to a modern device for lithotripsy, which is the first of its kind in Yemen.
The chairman of al Thawra Hospital Authority explained that the opening of the two centers comes within the authority's plans and programs to meet the needs of patients from the governorate who were deprived of many of these services, as well as enhancing the authority's role in providing more services to citizens.
He praised the role of the leadership of the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health, and Social Affairs, and the local authority in the governorate and their efforts in coordination to support the authority's projects. He pointed out the importance of the radiology center in the treatment of vascular and oncological diseases, liver, biliary, kidney, and others, which contains advanced devices at a cost of almost one million dollars with local funding.
Dr. Suhail noted the response of the Handicap organization in financing the project of building a center for prosthetics and prosthetic devices at a cost of 504 thousand dollars.
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