Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Thursday inked an agreement with Al-Makased association to renovate the society’s hospital maternity ward — with funding from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.

The accord was inked at a ceremony held at the hospital by the KRCS Secretary General, Maha Al-Barjas, and the hospital deputy director general Dr. Mohammad Hamandi. It was attended the society president Faisal Sinno and the KRCS delegate to Lebanon, Dr. Musaed al-Enezi.

Al-Barjas said in a statement to KUNA that the support came as part of the Kuwaiti aid for the Lebanese hospitals and repairing damage inflicted in the August 2020 port bombing.

The KRCS will oversee renovation and equipping the maternity ward with generous financial allocations from the fund.

For his part, Dr. Sinno said Al-Makased Hospital was under pressure, particularly in the maternity ward, due to its location close to the Palestinian refugee camp, Sabra, mounting numbers of Syrian refugee patients in addition to Lebanese in need for treatment.

Source: Kuwait News Agency