Qatar red crescent expands programmes to help syrian refugees

Qatari Red Crescent (QRC) is expanding its programmes to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan which focused from the outset on satisfying the affected people emergency needs including medical care, provision of food, shelter and psychological support, according to a QRC informed source. The source told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that medical operations programmes has been expanded recently to cover wounded Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. As part of the initiatives of the State of Qatar to provide humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees and displaced people, Qatar Red Crescent is involved in \"We Are All Syria\" which was launched from Qatar last July with the support Qatar charitable organizations to extend a helping hand and to respond to calls of relief, and to provide medical treatment to Syrian refugees on the Syrian-Turkish borders at Bab Al-Salama refugee camp. Qatari Red Crescent teams sensed, during their field work on the Syrian-Turkish border, the dimensions of the poor conditions the displaced people and refugees are living through with their suffering expected to exacerbate with the advent of winter season.