The Italian Cooperation interventions in the Health sector sustain local authorities to increase accessibility, quality and inclusiveness of basic health services with a specific focus on child health, maternal health, nutrition services, as well as integration between reproductive, psyco-social and mental health services and emergency ambulance services.
Main beneficiaries of these actions are the most vulnerable population between refugees, IDPs, returnees and host community, and particularly women and girls among them.
AICS provides medical equipment and medical services – including the rehabilitation of health centres – to people in need, with a focus on the ones affected by the Syria crisis. The first intervention in the Health sector is the Italian-Jordanian field hospital, which started operating in September 2012 in the nascent Za’atari Refugee Camp through a partnership among the Italian National Alpini Association, the Civil Protection Department, and the Jordanian Royal Medical Services, with the support of the Italian Cooperation and the government of Jordan.
