On Tuesday evening, August 4, 2020, two large explosions rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut killing at least 160, wounding more than 6000, leaving more than 300,000 homeless and destroying nearby buildings.  Humanly, no amount of money can compensate the losses incurred. 

Besides being overwhelmed with mass casualties influx after the explosion, hospital buildings that were several kilometers away also suffered great material damage. This is to be added to  their loss of staff members and in some cases patients, visitors, etc.

OBJECTIVES

The task main objective is to assess the damage that occurred in the most affected hospitals due to the Beirut port blast. It is intended to rapidly assess and document the damages that occurred in these hospitals and identify necessary repairs and equipment and supplies that must be repaired or replaced.

Main objective

To train selected first aid responders UNECA staff so they can provide adequate emergency medical treatment to UN personnel. As such,

• Train them as emergency medical first responders.
• Familiarize them with the Emergency Trauma Bag.
• Impart them with the baseline skills necessary to respond to a mass casualty incident.

To Improve Living Condition in Palestinian Gathering Host Communities – Support emergency medical response in Ain Helwe Adjacent Areas.

Specific objectives

To support the vocational training in nursing for 12 nurses along with 6 emergency physicians of the medical staff at Al-Nidaa Hospital in Ein el-Hilweh with the aim of developing their ER & ICU techniques at accredited institutes.

Following successful completion of overall training (both theoretical and practical), certificates from the Ministry of Education and from New Health concept were provided to trainees.

The overall training program extended over a period of 6 months, where each trainee undertook ER & ICU techniques courses.

Framework

In the frame of “Jina Dar” Program, New Health Concept in collaboration with ABAAD, provides over a period of 2 days, five training sessions in a different district to cover all remote areas in Lebanon.

Objective

The objective of these sessions is to raise awareness of the women and girls on basic health, hygiene and first aid information.

It aims to highlight the necessity and importance of maintaining standards of health and hygiene, on a personal and family/household level. It also intends to provide these women and girls with a minimum level of efficient response towards common emergency cases.

Discussed topics

The following content was discussed over a one-hour session:

• Health issues related to women:

  • Woman health and hygiene

  • Pregnant woman health care

• Health issues related to child:

  • Child’s health evaluation

  • Child’s fever

• Other general health topics and how to handle common emergency cases

The training is a half day course (theoratical & practical).

A certificate of completion is provided by the National School for Emergency Care upon successful completion of training and exam .

For information and inquiries:

Email: info@newhealthconcept.net ; Tel: 01 888921