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...
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
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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...
Avian flu diagnosis to see 15,000 Bethlehem birds slaughtered
Posted by: saleh1966
Bethlehem :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-02 03:42:54 -0700 | health-news
A Palestinian committee under the ministries of health and agriculture okayed Tuesday a decision to slaughter 15,000 poultry birds after an Avian Flu diagnosis in Israeli settlement near Bethlehem. Officials said they received word from Israeli inspectors that birds in...
UNICEF discusses its plan with Gaza Ministry of Health
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 02:20:03 -0700 | health-news
The Gaza Health Ministry represented by International Cooperation Director-General Dr. Mohammed al-Kashif convened a meeting with a delegation from the UN children's fund (UNICEF) headed by Diane Araki and Dr. Younis Awadallah. The UNICEF delegation briefed its proposed plan for...
Hamas government: Gaza's Mubarak hospital renamed.
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 20:20:26 -0700 | health-news
GAZA CITY - A hospital in Gaza named after Egypt's deposed president has been renamed, officials said Wednesday. The Hosni Mubarak Children's Hospital in Khan Younis will now be known as Tahrir Hospital, the health minister in Gaza said. Cairo's...
Israeli gives birth in Ramallah hospital
Posted by: saleh1966
Ramallah :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 20:23:12 -0700 | health-news
(From Maan News) RAMALLAH -"I was happily surprised at how well the Palestinian nurses and doctors treated me here, in fact I feel pampered," new mother Nisreen, a Jewish citizen of Israel, told Ma'an Wednesday night after delivering her first...
health disaster in Gaza.
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-02 05:13:37 -0700 | health-news
Gaza -The Gaza Health Ministry is reiterating warnings that the current shortage of medicines risks a serious health disaster for Palestinian patients. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has refused to answer to appeals by interveners to resolve the more than...
Gaza births decrease 6,000 from 2009.
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 02:30:39 -0700 | health-news
The Gaza Strip’s ministry of interior reported on Saturday that 59,154 newborns were registered in 2010 and 3,976 deaths, rates that were both down from the previous years' levels. Director of the ministry’s statistics department, Riyad Az-Zaytouna, said the birthrate...
Swine flu continues to spread in Gaza.
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 02:31:23 -0700 | health-news
The Ministry of Health in Gaza City said Wednesday that a total of eight Strip residents had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus over the previous week, including one health worker. Minister of Health Basem Na’eem said the eight were...
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