Kuwait Fund for Development offers a grant to develop health services for Syrian refugees in Jordan
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development declared the signing of a $1.9 million agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to develop a health project for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
The Director-General of the Fund, Marwan Al-Ghanem, said yesterday in a press statement that the agreement aims to provide health services to Syrian refugees in Jordan by developing primary health care services and follow-up and treatment cases of infection with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19).
He added that the project to develop health services for Syrian refugees will benefit about 84,447 people, and it is expected that all project work will be implemented within two years.
For her part, the representative of the High Commissioner for Syrian Refugees in Kuwait, Nasreen Rabiean, said that the agreement is concerned with providing humanitarian aid, care and health services to Syrian refugees in Jordan.
She added that the project mainly includes providing primary health care to about 28,113 patients from Zaatari camp and about 52,314 patients from Azraq camp, as well as monitoring cases of coronavirus infection (Covid19) in the two camps.
Al-Qabas newspaper stated that the “Kuwait Fund” provided two grants, the first worth 10 million dollars, and the second, 2.6 million dollars, in 2018 and 2020, to contribute to improving the living conditions of Syrian refugees in northern Iraq.
She stated that the “Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development” provided the High Commissioner in 2016 with a financial grant of $3 million to support the response plan to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon.
1,300,000 Syrians reside in Jordan, of whom 670,000 are Syrian refugees registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 79 percent of whom live in host communities, while 21 percent live in camps.
