CARE and the Government of Germany Send Emergency Medical Assistance to Gaza
Translated from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
Friday, 30 May 2008
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Medical assistance from CARE
Ramallah. WAFA. CARE International, in cooperation with the German Foreign Ministry, started sending the first shipment of emergency medical assistance, worth Euro 220,000 that will arrive by Monday and will be completed by the end of June, and that will benefit 70,000 patients, as part of an assistance package worth Euro 2,000,000.
Ayman Shuaibi, CARE’s Field Operations Manager, said the shipment consists of 34 types of basic medicines for the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases and cancer, in addition to 37 types of medical supplies not available in the Gaza Strip. The medicine will support the work of the warehouses of the Ministry of Health and seven hospitals: Al-Shifa, Al-Nasr, Kamal Adwan, Beit Hanoun, Al-Aqsa, Abu Yusef Al-Najjar, and Gaza European Hospital.
During a press conference in Ramallah yesterday, Gudrun Isphording, Deputy Head of the Representative Office of Germany, expressed hope that the medicine will ease even a little bit of the suffering and negation in the Gaza Strip, given the shortage in medical supplies and difficulties the health sector is encountering under siege. Isphording noted the joint effort between the Representative Office of Germany and the Palestinian Authority to deliver the medicine.
Dr. Omar Al-Nasr, Director General of Public Relations in the Ministry of Health, said the Ministry is keen to provide medicine to those who need it in the Gaza Strip, whether through donor countries or from the Palestinian Authority itself.
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