On the fifth anniversary of the victory of Aleppo... The education and health sectors are in remarkable development

Aleppo-Sana

On the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Aleppo from terrorism, the Directorate of Education continues the rehabilitation and restoration work for schools, where the number of schools from 2016 until this year has witnessed a remarkable increase from 290 to 1,705 schools with more than 654 thousand students.

The Director of Education in Aleppo, Ibrahim Maso, explained in a statement to SANA reporter that the educational sector is witnessing a remarkable recovery, as 30 schools will enter the service in the next semester, which will contribute to reducing the size of the classroom density and reflect positively on the quality of the educational process, pointing to the continuation of the carpentry workshop at the Third Industrial Technical Institute in Barfd. Schools with school chairs and furniture.

Masso indicated the Ministry of Education's keenness to secure teaching staff and achieve the localization of education, as more than four competitions have been announced since 2018, and the number of those appointed in the countryside reached about 10,000 teachers, which contributes to the stability of the educational process, pointing out that the Directorate of Education implemented a number of courses for teachers and teachers with the aim of Develop their skills and scientific abilities to keep pace with the developed curricula.

SANA’s camera monitored the rehabilitation and restoration work in the Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi School in the Salah Al-Din neighborhood, where the head of the school buildings department in the Directorate of Education, Ammar Shaar, explained that the maintenance work in the schools includes partial or complete maintenance work, in addition to implementing contracts with some international organizations and government agencies.

The supervisor of the implementation works, Engineer Hagop Janner, pointed out that the construction works included strengthening the structural elements, re-casting and repairing the damaged section, building the fence and internal cladding works.

And by moving to the Fourth Trade Secondary School for Girls in the Seif Al-Dawla neighborhood between the project implementer Saeed Darwish, the restoration and rehabilitation of schools constitutes an important step in re-spinning the educational wheel in the neighborhoods that have been liberated from the abomination of terrorism, noting that the construction works in the school included isolating roofs, installing tiles and electrical installations. Sanitary and installation of doors and windows.

Tariq Al-Shami, Director of Bassam Al-Omar High School, pointed out that the educational process returned to the school after rehabilitating it and securing its requirements to incubate students and provide them with science and knowledge to be a beacon of the future.

In the health sector, despite the effects of the destruction and devastation inflicted on health facilities as a result of terrorism, the cadres of this sector maintained the provision of free medical and treatment services to citizens and patients, and with the liberation of the city from terrorism, rehabilitation and restoration work began to include most health centers and hospitals, some of which were out of service to return to work equipped again. With the latest medical equipment, its number has so far reached more than 70 health sites.

Dr. Ziyad al-Hajj Taha, director of Aleppo Health, said in a similar statement that this year, the Eye Hospital was restored to service after being rehabilitated and restored, and the ambulance department was received in Zahi Azraq Hospital, with a capacity of 30 beds, and work is being done to restore and equip the basic block in the hospital with a capacity of 200 beds to be put into service at the beginning of the year The next, as well as equipping and renovating the central health warehouses, which were put into service.

During SANA’s camera tour of the Children’s Hospital, where the restoration and rehabilitation work is taking place, Haj Taha said that the restoration operations are nearing completion, and work is being done to receive its medical equipment from the Ministry of Health, and at the beginning of next year it will be put into service and accommodate one hundred and fifty beds, in addition to work on starting the rehabilitation of the National Hospital. Which can accommodate 500 beds.

He pointed out that periodic vaccination campaigns are continuing to be implemented to immunize children against diseases, and with the emergence of the Corona pandemic, centers and hospitals have been allocated to treat the injured and provide the vaccine to citizens free of charge through health staff, and a number of recovery cases have been recorded for elderly patients, and there are ongoing efforts to rehabilitate health centers in the countryside liberated from terrorism. Large intimate centers and Kafr Dael health and obstetrics centers in Khafsa have been received.

In Zahi Azraq Hospital, north of Aleppo, restoration and rehabilitation work is continuing, as the project manager, Engineer Zainab Haj Talib, explained that the restoration operations included the emergency department, infrastructure, and the two-storey building, part of which was allocated to corona patients and accommodates about 40 beds.

In the Surgical Eye Hospital, Dr. Obeida Al-Mufti, the hospital director, referred to the medical and treatment services that are provided to patients after being put into service this year, which contains specialized departments and clinics for the cornea, retina, strabismus, children, glaucoma, and arguments with specialized and high-quality cadres to receive about 300 patients per day and 15 surgeries are performed For cataracts, glaucoma and cornea, with preparations for retinal and vitreous surgeries during the next month. The hospital has 23 beds and two patient rooms.

Briwan Mohammed and Qusai Razzouk

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