With funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CARE distributes emergency medical assistance to Palestinians
4 July 2007. With funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CARE West Bank and Gaza will launch an emergency distribution of medicines to the Palestinian Ministry of Health’s central warehouses in Ramallah and Gaza. These medicines will then be distributed to 12 General Hospitals and to central primary health care clinics over all the Palestinian Territory.
The distributed medicines will allow the treatment of critical diseases that strike the Palestinian population, such as cancer, diabetes, intoxications, viral infections and heart problems. Approximately 50,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza will benefit from the procured medications.
CARE West Bank and Gaza is a humanitarian and development organization established in 1948. Working together with other CARE International members –Australia, Austria, Canada, France, United Kingdom, USA and local partners, CARE reaches out to over 800,000 people throughout the West Bank and Gaza.
For more information, field visits, and interviews, please contact:
George Sahhar, Communications and Documentation Specialist (sahhar@carewbg.org) or
Sébastien Kuster, Program Officer (kuster@carewbg.org)
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