At a cost of 600 million pounds, the opening of the Martyrs Specialist Health Center in Safita

Tartus-Sana

Al-Shuhada Specialized Health Center opened today in Safita city in Tartous countryside to provide free health services to the people of the region at a total cost of approximately 600 million Syrian pounds.

The center includes 15 specialized clinics such as cardiac, gynecological, pediatric, thoracic, joint, ophthalmic and other in addition to the radiology and laboratory department spread over three floors with an area of ​​850 square meters per floor with trained medical staff.

In a statement to reporters, Minister of Health Dr. Nizar Wehbe Yazji confirmed after the opening of the center that there will be a development of the center in the next phase to be a comprehensive first aid center in the 2020 plan to reach an ambulance center where some ambulatory operations will be conducted in 2021, explaining that the direction in the next phase will be the expansion to serve All areas and villages have the necessary health services.

Minister Yazji also opened the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the General Authority of Al-Basel Hospital in Tartous after providing him with the necessary equipment and tools to treat the sick and war-wounded for free.

In turn, Tartous Health Director Dr. Ahmed Ammar pointed to the importance of the Martyrs Specialized Center in providing free health services of high quality, while Dr. Mouin Abdel Karim, Director of the Center that medical services with medicines are provided completely free.

Residents of the region expressed their satisfaction with this step by opening this center with its specialized departments that contribute to improving the health services in Safita area in addition to the neighboring villages and will reduce many of the financial burden that patients suffer from consultations and medical analysis in clinics and private centers.

It is noteworthy that the center was accomplished by the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment in cooperation with the Tartous governorate and in coordination with the Ministry of Health and is implemented by the branch of the General Company for Construction and Development in Tartous.

The opening of the center was attended by the governor of Tartous, lawyer Safwan Abu Sa'di and the secretary of the branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Dr. Mohammed Hussein, and the presence of a large official and popular people from the region.