More than 1,000 people benefit from emergency convoy in Ghat
LIBYA – Najat Aghali, director of medical services at Ghat Hospital, has said more than 1,000 citizens across various parts of Ghat and in its shelter camps have received medical services from an emergency convoy sent by the Libyan Government’s Health Ministry, following the disasters, flash floods and flooding that recently hit the city.
Dermatology, internal medicine, surgery and ophthalmology clinics
Speaking by phone on a news bulletin of Libya Al-Ahrar TV, which broadcasts from Turkey and was followed by Al-Marsad, Aghali said the convoy had carried out medical examinations in dermatology, internal medicine, surgery and ophthalmology.
Skin diseases the most commonly recorded
She explained that work to record the health problems caused by the floods was still under way, and that skin diseases were the most commonly recorded so far. She added that some cases had not yet reached the hospital and were being covered by the ongoing survey.
Shortage of medicines and antivenoms
Aghali confirmed a shortage of some medicines and said she hoped the Medical Supply Authority would provide the hospital with the medicines and equipment it needs, particularly antivenoms for scorpion and snake bites, as scorpions and snakes appear more often during flood periods.
Long-term convoys and twinning to provide specialists
She called for medical convoys to be sent under programmes lasting six to eight months, or for doctors to be provided through twinning programmes with other hospitals, to address what she described as a clear shortage of specialist doctors, with the area’s medical staff made up mostly of general practitioners.
