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An
Introduction
Arakan Rohingya Social Welfare
society’s healthcare division is a non profit, healthcare unit
dedicated to serve the helpless poor Rohingya’s residing in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, specially in the western region.
Arakan Rohingya Social Welfare
Society’s health care division was officially opened on 8th of August
in the year 2000 to meet the growing needs of poor and helpless Burmese
Rohingya Muslims who have been driven out from their ancestral homeland
through ethnic cleansing by successive racist Burmese regimes, in a
systematic and planned way, since 1942 communal riot that resulted in
the massacre of about 100,000 Rohingya Muslims in Arakan.
The
Clinic
The clinic is located near the Nur
Mosque, Kilo 14, Jeddah and it is sponsered by Jamiat
Al Bir. It has four rooms of
which two houses the two doctors and one is used as
dressing room while
the other is used as waiting room.
Between the two doctors the General
Physician works as full time while the Child Specialist works for 3 days
par week.
Apart from the above physician we
have four volunteer workers who fulfill the following positions:
nurse (1),
women Coordinator (1),
Cleaner (1),
Receptionist (1).
Current
difficulties faced by the Clinic
The clinic is having a daily visit
of more than 100 patients where its capacity to handle a maximum of 50
patients par day. Therefore the Clinic needs urgently another two
doctors to fulfill the demands.
Secondly most of the patients are
children and infant. Thus the clinic need a continuous supply of
medicine and other related supplies in order to treat the infants.
Last but not least the clinic is
facing financial difficulties for which it requires immediate support
through donations; supply of Medicine and via providing physicians and
guidance.
Future
plans
Providing a Female Doctor to
diagnose O.G. And pregnant women.
Building a Pathology lab excluding
X-ray to accelerate the diagnosis process.
Organizing Seminars and small
education meeting to educate people to live a healthy life.
Extension of the clinic to
accommodate the growing number of patients
Acknowledgement
We would specially like to express
our gratitude to Jamiat Al Bir , WAMY, IIRO and to all the Muslim
organizations and individual brothers for their extended help and
contributions and pray to Allah (SWT) for HIS guidance and help.
Contact Info
MD Taher
Near Nur Mosque
Kilo 14
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Email: taher@rohingya.com
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