Health program

HEALTH PROGRAM

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OVERVIEW

about the program

In 2013, MAPs launched The Health Program Lebanon (HPL) to improve Syrian refugees’ access to quality and affordable healthcare in the Bekaa Valley. HPL works to fill gaps in Lebanon’s healthcare system by reducing the physical and financial barriers to health which prevent thousands of in-need Syrians from managing chronic diseases and treating life threating illness.
Our three health centers are strategically located in proximity to isolated refugee populations. Health needs among Syrian refugees continues to grow, with rates of diabetes, respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases on the rise due harsh living conditions, including the critical lack of clean water, sanitation and nutrition. Therefore, we have 112 trained healthcare workers providing services across six HPL projects with approximately 13,000 patients seen per month.

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Who are we?

HPL is a health program of MAPS (Multi Aid Programs NGO), which provides services to the refugees and vulnerable people in Lebanon.

Background

The Syrian crisis turned most of the Syrian population into refugee, emigrant, martyr or wounded in addition to the great impairment in the humanitarian and medical situation in Syria and asylum countries.
The medical situation for the Syrian refugee in Lebanon consider as the worst due to the difficulties of getting medical services because of the high costs in addition to the funding reduce from the International organizations , taking into consideration that the medical costs in Lebanon consider as a burden even to the Lebanese people.
Not only the sick refugee but also the doctors how are refugees face difficulties especially when they stand helpless seeing their countrymen suffer from their bad medical situation while they can’t do anything because of the rules in Lebanon . All of this led many refugees including doctors to take the way of illegal immigration to Europe seeking a better life conditions.
Still some of the Medical Staff preferred to stay with their refugees countrymen and they challenged the forced situation and they started to work with a little resources and they established clinics and centers which provide free high quality medical services for Syrian refugees and the Lebanese patients as well.
This group of Syrian Medical Staff are the nucleus of the Health Program in Lebanon .
Three years and a half since the launching of the Health Program in Lebanon.

In the Primary Health Care

We are working on:

Ghiras Al-Khair polyclinic.
Ghiras Al-khair specialist polyclinic.
Mobile medical unit .
A project for breast diseases
Diabetic project in Lebanon.

The available specialties are: (Internal medicine- Pediatrician – Obstetrics and Gynecology – Dentist – Orthopedic – General Surgery – ENT – Nephrology- Urology – Dermatology- Ophthalmology – emergency clinic – Echocardiography- Echography with Doppler – X Ray – Mammography – Breast disease clinic- Laboratory- Pharmacy).
In the primary health care facilities we serve 10000 patient per month.

In the Secondary Health Care

We are working on:

Patient and wounded hospitalization Fund.
Insurance of Dialysis sessions.
Post operation center for Syrian wounded.

At the Tertiary Health care

An advanced physiotherapy center had been launched, and Mobile Physiotherapy Unit.
We do 950 physiotherapy session per month.

Missions & Campaigns

We facilitated many medical missions from all the world.
We participated in many medical campaigns in refugees camps to raise the medical awareness and to do medical screening .

Training

We are interested in providing training for our staff in cooperation with many international and local organizations and universities: ( AUB – SAMS – IDF – ICRC ).

Containers

In addition we receive in-kind donation as Containers of consumables, medical equipment and medications then we classify, repacking and provide it to medical centers in Lebanon upon their needs.