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Palestinian Ministry of Health launches polio vaccination campaign to boost immunity in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
13 May 2022 – Ramallah - On Monday 16 May, the Palestinian Ministry of Health will launch round one of a polio vaccination campaign targeting all children under age five in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. The vaccination campaign is scheduled to run over three days: Monday 16 May through Wednesday 18 May 2022. Vaccination, using bivalent oral polio...
World Health Day 2022 – Strengthening Health Systems and Empowering Communities
7 April 2022, Ramallah - On this World Health Day, we call for a world that supports the health of humans and the environment alike. It is impossible to have a healthy society in a polluted environment, or to have a clean environment in an unhealthy society. Protection of the environment is critical to the realization of Health For All. Determinants of...
Zaina, 10, unable to access cancer treatment since February
15 February 2022 - Zaina is a 10-year-old girl from the Gaza Strip, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in June 2020. After her initial diagnosis, Zaina received chemotherapy at Rantisi Hospital in the Gaza Strip. It was a difficult time for Zaina and her family. “Zaina suffered with pain and with side effects from the chemotherapy,” her...
WHO hands over refrigerated vehicles to strengthen vaccine cold chain
East Jerusalem, 1 February 2022 - WHO in oPt handed over two refrigerated vehicles worth US$ 93 000 to the Palestinian Ministry of Health as part of its ongoing support to the health system and the national response to COVID-19. The vehicles, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany, will bolster efforts to strengthen the vaccine cold chain to...
Palestine receives its largest COVAX shipment, funded by the Governments of Germany and Italy
30 December 2021 – Last night, Palestine received its largest COVAX shipment to date, containing more than 453 600 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, funded by the Governments of Germany and Italy. The vaccine doses were transferred to the Ministry of Health’s vaccine storage facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Further consignments of...
World Health Organization launches a series of Mass Casualty Management (MCM) Training targeting main public hospitals in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
23 December 2021 - With generous support from the oPt Humanitarian Fund, the European Union Humanitarian Aid and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) completed the first of a series of Mass Casualty Management training for Shifa hospital’s emergency department in Gaza. It is the first of its kind in the...
World Health Organization and the Korea International Cooperation Agency sign off on establishing two Public Rehabilitation Outpatient Centres and Capacity building
Ramallah – West Bank, 09 December 2021 - Dr. Youseung Shin, the country Director of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Palestine, and Dr. Richard Peeperkorn Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) signed off today on an agreement to establish two new Public...
Reduce avoidable morbidity and mortality in oPT by strengthening the Palestinian emergency health care system
H.E. Mr. Giuseppe Fedele Consul General of Italy in Jerusalem (middle), Mr. Guglielmo Giordano Head of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (right), Dr. Richard Peeperkorn Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the occupied Palestinian territory (left) East Jerusalem, 15 December 2021 - Consul General of Italy in...
Maisa, 37, denied access to treatment for lung cancer
22 November 2021 – Maisa is 37 years old and from Deir Al Balah refugee camp in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2021. Since July, Maisa applied 3 times for a permit to reach An-Najah Hospital in the West Bank, to receive cancer treatments that are not available in the Gaza Strip. None of her...
UN Agencies and the Association of International Development Agencies stand by civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
14 November 2021 - The decision on 7 November of the Military Commander in the West Bank to declare by Military Orders the six Palestinian NGOs as unauthorized in the West Bank deepens the concern of the UN Agencies and the Association International Development Agencies (AIDA), working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The decision is...
