JAFPP gets 4D ultrasound equipment from Japan

By JT - Jun 24,2019 - Last updated at Jun 24,2019

Japanese Ambassador Hidenao Yanagi (far right) and Chairman of Board of Directors of the JAFPP Abed Mansi (second from right) at a Jordan Association for Family Planning and Protection clinic in Amman, on Sunday (Photo courtesy of the Japanese embassy)

AMMAN — Japan on Sunday handed over 4D ultrasound equipment to the Jordan Association for Family Planning and Protection (JAFPP) in Amman.

The handover ceremony was held at one of the JAFPP’s clinics in Quweismeh, Amman, in the presence of Japanese Ambassador Hidenao Yanagi and Chairman of Board of Directors of the JAFPP Abed Mansi, according to an embassy statement.

In 2018, the government of Japan extended to the JAFPP a grant totalling $76,100 for the implementation of the project titled “Renewal of Ultrasound Equipment for Health Clinics” through the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects, which aims to improve basic human needs at the grassroots level through NGOs and local governments, the statement read.

The overall objective of the project is to improve the performance of gynaecological examinations provided at the JAFPP’s health clinics, through the provision of 4D ultrasound equipment, according to the statement.

The JAFPP was established in 1964 as an NGO and has been supporting vulnerable mothers and babies by providing medical services with affordable price, in addition to extending various kinds of support such as counselling and awareness programmes.

With the new medical equipment provided by Japan, more accurate and immediate diagnoses by the doctors and the required treatment afterwards will be available, according to the statement.

“I sincerely hope the 4D ultrasound equipment, which was already brought into service for the examination of pregnant mothers, will be effectively and continuously utilised by the JAFPP and contribute to provide the needed medical care for all mothers and babies regardless of their social background in the course of pregnancy,” the ambassador said during the ceremony.

Under the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects, Japan has extended more than $10 million for 147 projects to NGOs, schools, hospitals and local governments in Jordan since 1993, concluded the statement.

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