Ksrelief Kicks Off 2nd Phase to Operate Dialysis Center in Yemen's Dhale

Ksrelief Kicks Off 2nd Phase to Operate Dialysis Center in Yemen's Dhale
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Ksrelief Kicks Off 2nd Phase to Operate Dialysis Center in Yemen's Dhale

Ksrelief Kicks Off 2nd Phase to Operate Dialysis Center in Yemen's Dhale

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed in Riyadh on Thursday an agreement with Selah Foundation for Development to implement the second phase of the project to operate the dialysis center in Dhale, Yemen.

The project aims to provide hemodialysis services to beneficiaries according to health standards to alleviate the suffering and preserve lives of patients with kidney failure, improve the performance in the center through the consulting clinic, count and monitor patients through a database and support the health sector in Dhale.

According to the agreement, KSrelief will work to secure materials and consumables for more than 6,000 dialysis sessions and provide meals for patients, sanitary materials, detergents and disinfectants, spare parts and maintenance supplies for generators, desalination plants and pumps.

KSrelief will also provide medical, technical, administrative, engineering and public services staff, a nephrologist and an additional medical staff in emergency cases and appoint a medical equipment engineer.

This will be done after KSrelief prepares the building and secures dialysis beds, administrative supplies, spare parts and others to receive patients properly and provide high quality service, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

This comes within the framework of the keenness of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by KSrelief, on caring for the sick and injured and supporting the medical sector in Yemen.



Libya's Eastern Parliament Approves Transitional Justice Law in Unity Move, MPs Say

Members of Libyan legislatures known as the High Council of State, based in Tripoli in the country's west, and the House of Representatives, based in Benghazi in the east, meet for talks in Bouznika, Morocco, December 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi/File Photo
Members of Libyan legislatures known as the High Council of State, based in Tripoli in the country's west, and the House of Representatives, based in Benghazi in the east, meet for talks in Bouznika, Morocco, December 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi/File Photo
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Libya's Eastern Parliament Approves Transitional Justice Law in Unity Move, MPs Say

Members of Libyan legislatures known as the High Council of State, based in Tripoli in the country's west, and the House of Representatives, based in Benghazi in the east, meet for talks in Bouznika, Morocco, December 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi/File Photo
Members of Libyan legislatures known as the High Council of State, based in Tripoli in the country's west, and the House of Representatives, based in Benghazi in the east, meet for talks in Bouznika, Morocco, December 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi/File Photo

Libya's eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, three lawmakers said, a measure aimed at reunifying the oil-producing country after over a decade of factional conflict.

The House of Representatives (HoR) spokesperson, Abdullah Belaihaq, said on the X platform that the legislation was passed on Tuesday by a majority of the session's attendees in Libya's largest second city Benghazi.

However, implementing the law could be challenging as Libya has been divided since a 2014 civil war that spawned two rival administrations vying for power in east and west following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

"I hope that it (the law) will be in effect all over the country and will not face any difficulty," House member Abdulmenam Alorafi told Reuters by phone on Wednesday.

The United Nations mission to Libya has repeatedly called for an inclusive, rights-based transitional justice and reconciliation process in the North African country.

A political process to end years of institutional division and outright warfare has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over the eligibility of the main candidates.

In Tripoli, there is the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah that was installed through a UN-backed process in 2021, but the parliament no longer recognizes its legitimacy. Dbeibah has vowed not to cede power to a new government without national elections.

There are two competing legislative bodies - the HoR that was elected in 2014 as the national parliament with a four-year mandate to oversee a political transition, and the High Council of State in Tripoli formed as part of a 2015 political agreement and drawn from a parliament first elected in 2012.

The Tripoli-based Presidential Council, which came to power with GNU, has been working on a reconciliation project and holding "a comprehensive conference" with the support of the UN and African Union. But it has been unable to bring all rival groups together because of their continuing differences.