(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) through a variety of programmes reached out to more than 140,000 people during 2020, a QCS official said. The programmes reached many living with cancer as well as healthcare professionals and others directly as well as through social media platforms, said Dr Hadi Mohamed Abu Rasheed, head, Professional Development and Scientific Research Department, QCS at a webinar organised by the Ministry of Public Health recently. As for financial assistance to cancer patients, QCS in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine, has assisted 1,300 patients with almost QR20mn, Dr Abu Rasheed said. The official noted that with agile leadership and the early activation of a management plan and its official transformation, QCS was able to reach the cancer patients and healthcare workers more than what was planned for 2020 despite the pandemic of Covid-19.