{
  "id": 12096109,
  "title": "QRCS launchs medical convoy in Sudan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/qrcs-launchs-medical-convoy-in-sudan",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T06:30:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/05/10/2026/qrcs-launchs-medical-convoy-in-sudan"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In Doha, Qatar, the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has initiated a multi-disciplinary medical convoy in Sudan, deploying a volunteer medical team from Qatar to conduct surgeries for displaced and underprivileged patients at Bahri Teaching Hospital. This project, conducted in collaboration with the Khartoum State Ministry of Health, aims to enhance medical services, ease patient suffering, and minimize surgical waiting lists.\n\nThe medical team, led by Dr. Mansour Ahmed Jaber, a senior consultant pediatric surgeon at Sidra Medicine, and Dr. Siddiq Mohieddin Siddiq, a consultant general surgeon at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), will be present for one week. During this period, they plan to perform up to 116 free general, urology, and paediatric surgeries.\n\nTo ensure the delivery of high-quality medical services, the hospital staff will receive training from the visiting experts from Qatar. The entire project is estimated to cost QR347,142.",
  "summary": "<p>Doha, Qatar: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched a multi-specialty medical convoy in Sudan, with a volunteering medical delegation deployed from Qatar to perform surgeries for displaced and underprivileged patients at Bahri Teaching Hospital.</p> <p>Being carried out in cooperation with the Khartoum State Ministry of Health (MOH), the project is aimed at bolstering medical services,…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}