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Al Rahma treats 500 Yemeni refugees in Obock

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Map: Obock, Djibouti

Kuwaiti NGO Al Rahma organised a medical convoy at Markazi camp, near Obock, for Yemeni refugees settled in northern Djibouti. Specialists provided consultations in several disciplines and distributed medicines and infant formula to 500 beneficiaries, according to Radio Television of Djibouti.

Kuwaiti NGO Al Rahma organised a medical convoy at Markazi camp, near Obock, which treated 500 Yemeni refugees, according to Radio Television of Djibouti. The operation was carried out in coordination with Djibouti’s Ministry of Health.

Specialist doctors from Al Rahma Hospital, in the commune of Balbala, provided consultations and distributed medicines. The convoy targeted, among others, new arrivals who had fled the crisis in Yemen.

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