King Mohammed VI personally chaired, supervised and kicked off, Tuesday at the Casablanca international airport, the operation to deliver humanitarian aid to the brotherly Palestinian people. This operation includes the setting up of a field hospital of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), the granting of blankets and a batch of essential medicines, as well as the provision of food aid by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity. The hospital, which will be set up in the Gaza Strip, will provide medical care to the Palestinians victims of recent events, as well as to the entire population of the area. It includes the specialties required by the population and adapted to its needs such as vascular and visceral surgery, traumatology, pediatrics, ENT and ophthalmology, etc. The food aid of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity is diversified and includes essential products particularly consumed in this holy month of Ramadan. This aid, which will benefit the populations of Gaza, Al-Quds and Ramallah, amounts to 113 tons. 5000 blankets will also be sent for the benefit of the same populations. The FAR medical-surgical field hospital, which comprises several modules and specialties, has a staff of 97 members, including 13 doctors and 21 nurses from different specialties. A batch of 25 tons of medicines will also be delivered to improve medical care. The shipment of food aid to Ramallah and Al-Quds started Tuesday across the territory of sister nation the Kingdom of Jordan, while the field hospital, medicines, food aid and blankets benefiting the population of Gaza will be set up and dispatched upon receipt of permits to be issued by the authorities of sister nation the Arab Republic of Egypt.
