Afghanistan’s Bayat Foundation has renovated and repainted the children’s ward at the Herat Regional Hospital, which had been in need of repair.

Local officials and hospital staff welcomed Bayat Foundation’s assistance and urged other organizations to help the hospital with much needed medical equipment.

The Bayat Foundation is dedicated to the health, education and well-being of the people of Afghanistan, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, marital status or religion.

The foundation provides programs and partnerships offering quality healthcare for women and newborns, increased access to education through new or refurbished schools, economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, social justice, strengthened families, competitive sporting events and cultural preservation.

Sayed Noor Ahmad Shah, a representative of Bayat Foundation in the western zone, addressed a ceremony to reopen the ward, and spoke on the foundation’s charitable work throughout Afghanistan.

He told how the foundation had provided life-saving help to Herat earthquake victims, and how it assisted with activating a telecommunications site installed by Afghanistan Wireless Communication Company.

“Similarly, in other provinces, people have been assisted during natural disasters,” he said.

Local officials meanwhile said at the ceremony that the number of patients visiting the hospital had increased considerably and that the renovated children’s ward would help ease some problems.

"A world of thanks to the Bayat Foundation for cooperating in this area and partially solving the problems of our compatriots' children," said Hayatullah Muhajir Farahi, acting deputy governor of Herat province.

Medical staff pointed out that not only did other wards need to be renovated but the hospital needed to be expanded due to the high number of patients.

The children's ward of the hospital treats on average 800 patients daily.

"Based on the agreement that was reached, the Bayat Foundation temporarily made the dormitory of the Herat Institute of Health Sciences available to the children's hospital and painted and repaired several rooms so that it could reduce heavy loads from other wards," said Ghulam Ahmad Hanafi, deputy director of Herat's public health department.

Mirwais Abedi, head of the children’s ward at the hospital said: “According to the assessment we conducted in this part of the dormitory, it has a capacity of about 50 patients. If we can accommodate two children in each room, Allah willing, it can temporarily solve the problems of our patients until we have a complex hospital for this zone, because Herat is a border city and we have patients from adjacent provinces such as Farah, Ghor, Nimroz and Qala-e-Naw.”

Bayat Foundation has always provided necessary assistance in various fields, especially humanitarian aid in the western zone of the country. People in this zone want such assistance to continue.