Damascus-Sana
The opening of two hospitals in Tartous and As-Suwayda, putting health centers and medical departments into service after restoration, and providing health institutions with modern equipment to improve and expand services.
With the gradual recovery, the health sector continues the process of qualification and training to build medical and health cadres in parallel with the automation of its services and enhancing its quality to obtain more of its institutions ISO certification in an approach to keep pace with international standards and specifications in providing services.
The most prominent health sector events for 2019 ...
18/1 The Ministry of Health Care Directorate obtains an international ISO certificate.
20/1 Providing the Palmyra National Hospital with a set of modern equipment, including an Echo, an inferior endoscopy device, and a portable radiology device.
1/2 Hejira health center shall be put into service after its rehabilitation.
10/2 A national vaccination campaign against polio.
10/2 Al-Shuhada Health Center in Al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo was put into service after its restoration.
27/2 Re-activating the theoretical operations in the general authority of Daraa Hospital.
3/14 Establishing mobile clinics for reproductive health services in 5 governorates.
4/4 Announcing the realization of saving 7.63 billion pounds through the standardized mechanism for the drug and medical supplies.
6/4 The University of Oxford, UK, publishes a medical article about a rare surgical case performed at the General Authority of Al-Basel Hospital, Tartous.
9/4 The reopening of the Early Intervention Center for Special Needs in Latakia.
10/5 A new resonator in the General Hospital of Damascus.
20/5 The work of the seventy-second session of the World Health Assembly begins at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva with the participation of Syria.
25/5 The Ministry of Health and the International Committee of the Red Cross are discussing in Geneva ways to strengthen cooperation in the rehabilitation of health institutions affected by terrorism and to provide them with medical equipment.
12/7 Supplying the Quneitra Health Directorate with four pre-made clinics.
2/9 Announcing the results of a study on the causes of deaths of children under the age of five, which included more than 75 thousand families from different governorates, including about 14,500 births.
2/9 The opening of the Neurosurgery Department in the General Authority of Al-Assad Hospital in Deir Al-Zour city and setting up a mammography camera with service.
9/21 The General Authority for the Children’s Hospital opens in Tartous.
1/10 Launching the national campaign for early detection of breast cancer, which lasted for a month.
8/10 The General Authority of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Hospital receives ISO 9001-2015 related to developing medical work and providing services of the best quality.
8/10 Daraa Health Directorate puts an audio broadcasting device to detect early hearing impairment among children in service within the comprehensive clinic complex in the city.
10/13 Launch of the national polio vaccination campaign.
10/14 Syria participates in the works of the health ministers meeting for the sixty-sixth Eastern Mediterranean countries in Tehran.
10/15 Carrying out the first two open-heart operations in Hama National Hospital after the opening of a department specializing in cardiac surgery and cardiac catheterization.
10/21 Inauguration of the General Authority of Shehba National Hospital in As-Suwayda, at a cost of about 1.4 billion pounds.
10/24 The Shuhada Health Center is opened in Safita, Tartous countryside.
10/29 Re-opening of the Department of Auricular Surgery in the General Authority of Daraa Hospital, after its interruption during the past years due to terrorism.
6/11 Re-activating the periodontal section in the specialized dental center in the comprehensive clinics complex in Daraa.
11/21 Opening of the first anti-tumor chemical drug factory in Adra Industrial City in Damascus countryside.