Monthly Bulletin of the Syrian Expatriates Medical Association January – 2015

SEMA IN A MONTH

WE RENDERGOODNESS TO ALL

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Introduction

Initial Health Care

The Central Laboratory in Damascus Ghouta

The Specialist Gynecology and Pediatrics Hospital Open in Hama

Supplying Northern Hospitals with Primary Health Care Kits

The Syrian National Project for artificial limbs (prosthetics) The Seventh

Course for Assistant Anesthetics Technician Cadre

The Engineering Office in the Association

Miscellaneous

SEMA Projects

بسم اهلل الرمحن الرحيم

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The Syrian Expatriates Medical Association is a non-profitable licensed in Turkey, France and Britain medical relief organization.

The Association aims to provide medical services at all levels from initial health care and support field hospital up to the

development of health services by training medical staffs and spreading the medical awareness to upgrade the medical

situation in the area.

The Association is distinguished by its strategic projects such as the National Syrian Project for artificial limbs (prosthetics)

in partnership with several other organizations. Also, its uniqueness for its project of maintaining medical devices

carried out by its engineering medical office gives it superiority.

Leading medical care, now and in the future, to improve the health situation in Syria

• To provide the maximum possible level of medical services to all those in

need in the present and the future without discrimination of gender, race or

political affiliation

• To upgrade the medical staff standard according to the international ones

• To promote public health awareness under all circumstances via educational

and prevention programs

• To provide the best vision in order to upgrade the medical infrastructure and

stimulate all civilian and governmental efforts to achieve this vision

• To participate in medical relief around the world and collect cash and in-kind

donations

• To communicate and coordinate with world relief organizations in accordance

with the objectives of the Association and its goals

Our Vision:

Our Goals:

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The monthly Bulletin aims to highlight the achievements and the projects sponsored by the Association and provide clear data for the followers about the workload in these projects via various statistics.

In addition, it aims to cover the events and activities in which the Association participates in detailed reports on the activities of the Training and Educational Department as well as the courses hosted by the Association.

Also, it provides brief reports on the number of the medical devices repaired or maintained by the Engineering Office.

Monthly Bulletin: SEMA IN A MONTH

The Association offers many primary care services through the centers it supports around most provinces inside Syria and in neighboring countries. In addition, we present below some statistics to represent the workload of five primary health care centers with laboratory tests, as well as the tests done in the central laboratory in Damascus Ghouta.

Primary Health Care

The total number of patients in five centers

Number of children

Gynecological diseases:

Internal medicine diseases

Dental Clinics

Ambulatory cases ( one center only )

Other cases

Total number of laboratory tests

Laboratory tests in the Central Laboratory

of Damascus Ghouta

13613 patients

45413235 Cases

973 patients

1415 patients

1038 patients

2411 Cases

5552 laboratory tests

3750 laboratory tests

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All these statistics are shown in Martyr Dr. Mohamed Bakar Hospital while laboratory tests are shown in detail in the central laboratory.

Martyr Dr. Mohamed Bakar Hospital

3302

144714339

43214

751

14792

637

409Laboratory tests

The total number of medical services

Gynecological cases

Normal vaginal delivery cases

Cesarean deliveries

Gynecological surgical operations

Curettage cases

Other gynecological services

Pediatrics cases

Pediatric healing

Neonate care unit admission

First aid services

Laboratory tests

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The Central Laboratory in Damascus Ghouta

3750 test

1071174949193

376

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The total number of laboratory tests

Blood tests

Chemistry

Immunity

Microorganisms and cultures

Microscopic tests

Body fluid tests

Direct examination

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The Specialist Gynecology and Pediatrics Hospital opening in Hama countryside

This hospital covers the northern and the northwestern countryside of Hama and part of the southern countryside of Edlib, where the number of beneficiaries reaches about 120,000 displaced and hosted people.

Work in the hospital started with all its departments on 01/01/2015 with the support and supervision of the Syrian Expatriates Medical Association.

The hospital has the following departments:

The Specialist Gynecology and Pediatrics Hospital Open in Hama

It is characterized as the first Specialist Hospital in the region that offers all medical services for women, children and neonates.

All gynecologic operations, cesarean deliveries and other medical services for women are performed in the Gynecology Department.

The neonate care unit is characterized by distinguished medical care offered to the premature infants and neonates from primary health care services up to the admission in the neonate care unit as well as providing medical services such as phototherapy, performing laboratory tests, lumber puncture and other complex procedures in addition to the availability of respirators.

• Pediatrics clinic• Operation rooms• Neonatal care unit • Laboratory• Gynecology clinic

• Delivery room• Emergency

department• Radiology room• Pharmacy

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Monthly report of the gynecology, obstetrics, women clinics & healing:

Monthly report of pediatrics, neonatal care unit, clinics & healing

Here is the statistics table covering the hospital work during the first month of 2015:

Delivery Department

Specialty services

Outpatient clinic services

502

397

65

54

548

821

Obstetrical diseases

Gynecological diseases

Normal vaginal delivery

Cesarean delivery

Laboratory

Ultrasound photos

1382 The total number of hospital out-patient cases

49 cases

84 cases

652 cases

577 cases

20 cases

Preterm younger than one month (neonates)

Full term younger than one month (neonates)

Younger than 2 years

Children between 216- years

Neonatal care unit admission

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The Association secured materials for primary health care with the support of the international health organizations that are interested in this side. Consequently, the Association distributed these materials to hospitals and health centers in Northern Syria and the freed countryside of Lattakia.

Securing Primary Health Care Kits for Inner Hospitals

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This is one of the Association leading projects for its important services offered to the injured in addition to embodying the spirit of cooperation and coordination among medical organizations which share the Association and several organizations in supporting this project. These are Syria Relief, and Every Syrian Organization.

Because of the importance of this project, the 2014 Statistics will be presented to provide an idea of the volume of work in this vital project.

The National Syrian Project for artificial limbs

Artificial lower limbs

The total number of artificial limbs (prosthetics) is 721

Orthodontic appliances: 100 units

Artificial upper limbs

180 above the knee 295 below the knee

23 through the knee 49 instep

27 above elbow 43 below elbow

1 through wrist 1 fingers

This project has adopted accelerating steps to develop its work in type and quality since it started to manufacture the artificial upper extremities several months ago and, shortly started to manufacture foot coverings for those with below ankle amputation to give the foot effectiveness and good shape.

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The Seventh Course for Assistant Anesthetics Technician Cadre

Training and education commission of the Syrian Expatriates Medical Association finished the seventh course for establishing a staff of anesthesia assistants where this course aims to train the medical staff to fill the wide gap and the great need for anesthesia assistants in inner Syria.

Before launching this course, a basic life support course for one day was conducted for 22 trainees who have completed the theoretical and practical lessons after passing the exam and obtaining a certificate at the end of the course.

This course began on 19/1/2015 and continued for seven days, during which several lectures were delivered, including the basics of anesthesiology aided by the way of how to manage patients of different medical situations, trauma patients and war casualties up to how resuscitation and recovery, where the number of lectures were nearly twenty .

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• Acquainting trainees with the operational environment and anesthetic drugs

• Short sessions on ( anesthesia device – parts and examination- preparations for anesthesia )

• Management of the airway and endotracheal intubation ( on doll and in the operation room )

• Stages of general anesthesia: induction, maintenance, and wakefulness ( direct operations )

• Sessions on ( regional anesthesia techniques and patient monitoring techniques 'capnogram ')

• Cardiac arrest and resuscitation during anesthesia

• Anesthetizing bruised patients

The number of trainees was 24 trainees, 22 of whom passed.

This was followed by the practical section and workshops that

included the following:

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The Engineering Office in the Association

The Engineering Office in the Association provided a variety of services during January 2015, most prominently were:

• Testing the devices to make sure of their efficiency : where the

efficiency of different devices from several medical organizations had been

tested before they were transferred into inner Syria to be installed. One

of the tested most important devices was an axial computer tomography

device; and preparation for its location is now underway for installation

by a charitable organization while testing Doppler ECHO, dental chairs and

Monitor devices

• Repairing number of medical devices : such as monitor devices,

oxygen generating device, electric shock devices, phototherapy devices for

preterm infants, microscope to examine biopsies, and incubators for children

• Installing several devices in field hospitals : artificial ventilator

devices for premature infants with the installation of a device for electrolytes

and device for blood tests and crew training on them, in addition to the

installation on monitoring devices in Martyr Dr. Mohamed Bakar Hospital

in the countryside of Aleppo and in the Specialist Gynecology and Pediatrics

Hospital in the countryside of Hama

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Various News

The Association delivered nerve EEG device to Bab Alhawa Hospital from the Canadian Delivery

قامت الرابطة بتسليم جهاز تخطيط الأعصاب إىل مستشفى باب الهوىBab Alhawa Hospital من الشحنة الكندية.

The Association delivery a nerve EEG device to Bab Alhawa Hospital

Laboratory and gynecological operations room renewal in Martyr Dr. Mohamed Bakar Hospital in the countryside of Aleppo

The laboratory has been developed with support from the Association by providing it with a device for electrolytes and another for blood gas analysis, in addition to securing all devices and equipment to conduct all gynecological operations.

Because of the guidance of Allah, and then the cooperation between Martyr Dr.Mohamed Bakar Hospital (SEMA) and Chmarin Hospital (PAC), the activities of pediatrics surgery were launched by the end of 2014. A number of major and minor quality operations have been performed within a very distinctive initiative.

We ask Allah, the Almighty, that such experience go on and its benefit prevail so that any deserted child in need of any advanced surgery may benefit from it.

Performing distinguished surgical operations in Martyr Dr. Mohammed Bakar Hospital

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The Association participates in the Relief of Syria Network ConferenceThe Association is considered one of the founding organizations and contributors in the Relief of Syria Network and has participated in this conference, whose most important outputs, according to the statement published on the web page of the Network are as follows.

The annual ( Confidence ) Conference outputs of the Relief of Syria Network was held in Turkish city of Gaziantep on 9-10 / January / 2015 and attended by more than 50 Syrian non-governmental organizations. The attending organizations were:

With many other important points.

• The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):

functions & its method of registration of the Syrian organizations

• Licensing and Registration of non-governmental Syrian organizations in Turkey

• The importance of the security factor for Syrian organizations and the

announcement of a session hosted by non-governmental organizations (NGO) Forum

• Humanitarian operations across the Turkish-Syrian border by the Turkish Red Crescent

• Graphical map for the Relief of Syria Network

• Work mechanism within the humanitarian sectors that have been adopted by the

Relief of Syria Network

• Explanation of the Charter of the humanitarian work of Syrian non-governmental

organizations, and the signing of several organizations on it

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Various News

Projects supported by SEMA

Primary Health Care Centers Learning and Training Projects

Now, Academy of Emergency

Medicine at home

Nursing Institute Project at

home and abroad

Emergency Academy Project

abroad

Training and Courses Center

Project in Turkey

Anesthesia Institute Project at

home and abroad

Horan :

Angel center and Nahtah center

Damascus :

Al-Farabi and Khadija center for

infectious diseases inEast Ghouta:

Support healing clinics in Douma

partially

Homs :

support chronic disease and dialysis

drugs

Deir ez-Zor :

Pediatric Hospital House (Resala Forum)

Aleppo :

Shaheed Dr.Mohammed Bakar Hospital

for Women and children - Bab Anoor camp

clinics and Shohadaa suburb camp

Countryside of Idlib :

Kiwan Hospital in partnership with

Sams

Tripoli :

24 clinics in partnership with Sams

Fadhila clinics supported partially

Jordan:

Clinic in Amman

Clinics in the Zaatari refugee camp

in cooperation with the Arab Relief

Society

Field Hospitals

Sheikh Yassin Hospital

in Deir al-Zour

M1 Hospital in Aleppo

Shaheed Osama Ablaq Hospital in the countryside of Lattakia

Shaheed Waseem El

Housseynou Hospital in

the countryside of Idlib

ambulatory system in

Hama

Field Daria Hospital in

Damascus Countryside

The Central Laboratory

in East Ghouta

Salam System for

communication in

Eastern Ghouta

Frontier Field Daraa

Hospital

supporting central

warehouse in Kenitra

Teir Maalah Hospital in

the Northern countryside

of Homs and partial

support of Talbisa

Hospital staff

Hama :

Specialist Gynecologic and Pediatric

Hospital

• Prosthetics Project in cooperation with several organizations.

• Medical-Engineering Office Project for the maintenance of medical devices.

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For donation and support us in our Project

SEMA, Syrian expatriate Medical Association, Turkey:

Bank Account:

KUVEYT TURK KATILIM BANKASI A.ŞGAZİANTEP ŞUBE

SWIFT KODU: KTEFTRIS

Account number (9129778)

Iban ($): TR86 0020 5000 0912 9778 0001 01

ADRES: PROF. MUAMMER AKSOY BULVARI OSMANLI İŞ MERKEZİ

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