Medical Relief and CARE Conducting Health Days and Awareness
Raising in the Jenin Rural Area
Translated from Al-Ayyam Newspaper
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Page 7

Jenin. Al-Ayyam. part of the mobile clinic intervention, Medical Relief Society and CARE organized a series of health days and awareness activities in various locations in the Jenin Governorate. Funding is provided by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid.

A health awareness day was organized in Um Al-Reehan; a village that became isolated because of the racist separation fence. The intervention was organized in cooperation with the local council, and tens of medical cases benefited from it.

In Arraneh village, that lacks medical services, a health day was conducted in cooperation with UNRWA’s community mobilization project. 50 health cases were screened, and awareness lectures were offered to female students about dental care, proper nutrition, and adolescence. 140 female students attended from the village.

Also, a health day was organized in cooperation with the women’s center in Deir Abu Da’eef village, whereby 65 cases of chronic diseases were screened.

Mohammad Abu Al-Haija, coordinator of the mobile clinics in the Medical Relief Society, said the intervention had expanded lately because of increased demand by the local village councils that lack medical services, especially in the isolated communities adjacent to the racist separation fence.

Jamal Rashed, CARE’s project coordinator, said that services are offered in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Health Work Committees, and Medical Relief, and that the aim is to provide medical services to the most marginalized segments of society. Rashed said the project will continue to offer help in the targeted villages until next September.