Under the umbrella of Sustainable Development programme and in fulfillment to the Good Neighbor policy followed by the NOC with regards to the neighboring regions to its oil sites, a convey of trucks has arrived yesterday, Tuesday, July 13th 2021, to the municipality of Murada carrying various medical equipments, supplies, medical furniture, laboratories and all the needs necessary to equip and optimally operate the Murada Al-Qarawi Hospital. And to open all clinics in order to receive patients and perform emergency operations, c-sections and delivery, dental and optical care. As well as, beds and accommodations, Labs, incubators, radiology equipment, power generators, ventilators, oxygen network supplies and other necessary equipment.
The NOC has, at an earlier stage, also carried out a comprehensive maintenance of the facility, which we are now in the process of preparing, in order to improve and develop health services provided to citizens in Murada and neighboring areas; and to support the health sector in general.
This support comes as a moral duty towards the areas close to the oil operations. As rich Murada is in oil sites, it has not received sufficient attention in decades.
However, the NOC has previously supported the municipality of Murada in the water and electricity sector, and still continues to provide support according to available capabilities and allocated budgets. Furthermore, the Department of Sustainable Development aims to support the education sector and extend even more support to the water sector in the near future.
The handover ceremony was attended by Mr. Mustafa Al-Zawawi – Mayor of the Municipality of Murada, Mr. Ali Suleiman, a member of the Municipal Council of Murada, several notables and people from the area. In addition to Mr. Muhammad Al-Jahani and Mr. Haitham Al-Manqush from the Sustainable Development Department of the National Oil Corporation.
