Funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CARE Distributes Emergency Medicine to Palestinians

CARE West Bank and Gaza is distributing emergency medicine to 12 general hospitals and central primary health care clinics in the Palestinian Areas. Funding is provided by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through CARE France. The donated medicine will cover the needs of approximately 50,000 Palestinians for three months.

Yesterday, Grégoire de Sachy, Program Manager, CARE France, and Fabienne Pouyadou, Head of Corporate Fundraising, visited Ramallah’s Government Hospital, and the warehouse of the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry, and saw firsthand the delivered medicine boxes. Medical staff stated that the medicine donated by France will have a positive impact, as the shipment will make medicines available for the treatment of illnesses such as breast cancer, diabetes, infections, hemophilia, and heart problems.

Humanitarian conditions in the West Bank and Gaza had deteriorated sharply, because of the long strike by civil servants, international embargo, and the lack of access by Palestinians to cities and villages where medical services are offered. The medicine shipment will help mitigate some of the effects on the civilian population.

For more information, please contact Sébastien Kuster,
Program Officer (kuster@carewbg.org)

Medicine in the central warehouse of the Ministry of Health, Ramalllah