Health Care Facility Infrastructure and Support

ANERA helps upgrade and refurbish clinics and hospitals and improves health care services for the poorest, most disadvantaged communities. We strengthen public health programs and institutions serving the handicapped and disabled. We provide technical guidance and cash grants, as well as medical supplies that support their operations and offset financial burdens.

Examples of specific projects:

• Dar al-Ajaza Hospital is an 800-bed specialty hospital in Beirut serving thousands of geriatric patients and persons with severe mental and physical disabilities. The hospital is a training facility in psychiatry for medical students. ANERA helped the hospital modernize and upgrade the laundry, central kitchen, electrical systems, elevators, and water supply.

• The Palestinian Red Crescent Clinic in Jiftlek, West Bank, services 6,000 inhabitants in an isolated area of the Jordan Valley. It is the primary care facility for the region and was in a terrible state of disrepair until ANERA refurbished the building, rehabilitating the cistern and installing everything from a new roof to toilets.

• ANERA helped the St. Joseph Hospital Friends Society in Jerusalem to acquire the complicated equipment needed to perform eye surgeries at their facility.