– A voluntary team from the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced Friday carrying out 30 surgeries on those needy people in Nepal, as part of the society’s medical campaigns in favor of patients all over the world. Speaking to KUNA, a member of the advisory team and head of the Urology and Endoscopy Unit at Al-Amiri Hospital Dr. Abdullatif Al-Turki said that the KRCS launched third campaign of surgical operations in Nepal, which would contribute to treating more critical surgery at the hospital.

He affirmed that this campaign is an extension of the first successful one, indicating that the operations were implemented by laparoscopic to remove kidney stones, cystoscopies and ureteral stones, in addition to laparoscopic removal of enlarged prostate and kidneys.

This is a humanitarian initiative launched by the KRCS that aimed at alleviating the patients’ sufferings mainly the poor, he said.

Meanwhile, Khaled Al-Zaid, head of KRCS public relations department, said this campaign seeks to mitigate the patients’ miseries who could not afford the cost of the surgeries.

The campaign has contributed to treating many poor patients, including men and women, who came in search for medicine, he said.

He elaborated that the society had previously organized a treatment program for the needy in Yemen and Nepal, and for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

In addition, the society provides some medical equipment and clinics for a number of national societies, he cocluded

Source: Kuwait News Agency