Resources Needed To Improve Health of Palestinian Refugees
Source: Scoop
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2013-05-21 18:04:21 -0700 | health-news
Health programmes carried out by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees has helped to improve their lives, but greater efforts and more resources are needed to effectively tackle health challenges, particularly during times of conflict, says a...
IDF cuts grants for reservists following Gaza op.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2013-04-17 07:06:31 -0700 | health-news
Following a budget-breaking call-up of combat reserve soldiers during Operation Pillar of Defense, IDF decreases yearly grants...Amir Cohen The IDF decreased the yearly grants it allocates to reserve soldiers, sparking criticism on Wednesday. The change came following a budget-breaking call-up...
Gaza sees rise in cancer-related deaths
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Ramallah :: Palestine | updated 2013-04-05 04:47:31 -0700 | health-news
Fatal Disease Shifa Hospital in Gaza (archives) Photo: Dr. Saleem Haj Yehiya Cancer becomes second-leading cause of death among Palestinians after heart disease due to serious shortage in medical staff and equipment, Al-Monitor reports. Gaza sources blame Israel for...
Haniyeh Opens Heart Hospital In Gaza
Source: Scoop
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-06-12 22:14:12 -0700 | travel-news
The hospital is the first of its kind in the Gaza strip, and opened by charity funding "A public Service Association" which was founded in 1993,and provides services to the citizens at nominal prices.
Patient Kidnapped At Erez Terminal
Source: International Middle East Media Center
Jabaliya :: Palestine | updated 2012-03-24 08:32:02 -0700 | travel-news
Palestinian patient from the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing. The patient was heading to a hospital in the West Bank for medical treatment...IOF arrested Bassam Sha'ban Fu'ad Raihan, 24, from Jabaliya refugee...
Letters, drawings for Gilad help him, hospital children'
Source: Jerusalem Post
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2011-12-21 17:56:38 -0800 | political-news
Although it's unlikely that Gilad Schalit will have time to read them, letters written by hospitalized children and doctors at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot are thought by psychologists to help in their recovery. Writing letters to Gilad connects them...
OXFAM: GAZA RUNS OUT OF MEDICINE
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-01 20:39:30 -0700 | health-news
Gaza's medicine shortage has reached "alarming proportions," international aid group Oxfam said Friday, quoting medical officials saying that drugs were held up at Israel's crossing into Gaza. Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has only five vials left to dissolve blood...
Why 95% of All Diets Fail!
Posted by: Amr Miqdadi
Ramallah :: Palestine | updated 2012-03-01 15:22:38 -0800 | health-news
You may have heard this alarming statistic before. 95% of all diets fail. This statistic has been published all over the Internet and used by health care professionals for years because it's true. I didn't make it up. Let's look...
Red Cross Donates Medicine to Gaza Hospitals
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 19:13:34 -0700 | health-news
The Red Cross in Gaza announced Tuesday that it had donated all of the medicine in its local warehouses to public Gaza hospitals as the health sector remained in a shortage crisis. ICRC spokesman Omar Fery said warehouse managers were...
Gaza health minister warns of acute medicine shortage
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2011-08-09 04:13:29 -0700 | travel-news
He also warned Wednesday that all surgeries will be suspended in the next few days if the medicines and supplies don't start reaching Gaza. (AP)
Egypt Allow Medical Aid into Gaza
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 03:29:21 -0700 | health-news
Five tons of medical supplies and medicine were allowed into the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt. The Egyptian authorities announced that aid was sent by the Oman and Saudi government and the Egyptian Red...
Shortage of Medicine Threatens Patients' lives in Gaza
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 19:53:30 -0700 | health-news
Gaza's Ministry of Health has warned that the blockaded territory run out of essential dialysis solutions and insulin . There are hundreds of patients with renal failure requiring daily dialysis or kidney transplants. Minister of health in Gaza Dr.Bassem Naim...
PA to slash cost of medications
Posted by: saleh1966
Nablus :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 00:34:31 -0700 | health-news
NABLUS -The price of medications will decrease by up to 50 percent over the coming months, acting Minister of Health Fathi Abu Moghli said Wednesday. Subsidies, and cost-cutting measures from the ministry, importers union, medical manufacturers and local pharmacists all...
PA debts see Jordan cancer center halt referrals
Posted by: saleh1966
Ramallah :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 00:34:34 -0700 | health-news
RAMALLAH -The Hussein Medical Center for Cancer in Amman told the Palestinian Authority last week it would no longer accept patient referrals from the Palestinian Ministry of Health because of unpaid debts totaling almost eight million dinar, in a letter...
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