Translated from Al-Quds Newspaper
Friday, 2 November 2007
Page 12
Jenin. From Ali Smoudi. The Health Work Committees and CARE met with Al-Aqrabaniyeh community. In attendance were representatives of both organizations and Al-Aqrabaniyeh Local Council. Discussion focused on mechanisms that will improve the work of mobile clinics and services, offered in the village, and funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid.
Dr. Abdul-Naser Daragmeh, Director of the Health Work Committee in Toubas, expressed satisfaction with the cooperation of the local community in the success of mobile clinics in the village. He highlighted the role of the mobile clinics in providing medical and preventive services, including general medicine, women’s health, awareness raising, and medicine and other services.
Dr. Daragmeh said the aim of the meeting is to listen to plans that will develop the work of mobile clinics in the village. He said the project is helping communities in an area that includes the northern part of the Jordan Valley and Toubas, namely in Bardala, Kardala, Ein Al-Beida, Al-Maleh, Jiftleck, Al-Misfah, Ein Shabla, Tayaseer, Al-Faraa’, Al-Thagra, and Al-Aqrabaniyeh.
Jamal Rashed, project field representative, said that CARE is cooperating with the Health Work Committees and the local community, to serve residents of the area. Rashed called for consorted effort so the project will succeed.
Shukri Awad, Head of Al-Aqrabaniyeh Local Council, thanked the Health Work Committees and CARE for their support to the clinic. He said that such assistance is very important given the harsh living conditions in the area, and he asked that such assistance will continue, and that support will be provided through the various programs to children and women.
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