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CARE Distributes Emergency Medical Assistance

Translated from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida Newspaper
Friday, 6 July 2007 Page 13



Ramallah. WAFA. CARE launched an emergency campaign to distribute medicine to 12 hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza, with funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CARE said in a news item that medicine was distributed to the warehouse of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which will distribute the medicine to hospitals and health centers in the Palestinian areas.

According to CARE, the medicines will allow the treatment of critical diseases in the Palestinian areas such as diabetes, cancer, intoxications, viral infections and heart problems. Approximately 50,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza will benefit from the procured medications.