Health Care Facility Infrastructure and Support

American Near East Refugee Aid (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.

With USAID funding, from 2006 to 2009, ANERA upgraded the water and sanitation facilities at 11 clinics and 4 hospitals in the West Bank - improving sanitation units, installing sinks in emergency rooms, renovating cisterns and installing water tanks and water filters. Read about Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus and look at before/after pictures of our work at Jenin Hospital.

Examples of specific projects:

  • ANERA was the first big donor to the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, giving $1,500,000 that started the hospital’s construction in 1988. Since then, ANERA has made many shipments of medical in-kind donations to Al-Ahli. In 2005, ANERA gave the hospital a Complete Blood Count machine which helps diagnose certain medical conditions, track the progression of an illness, and determine whether infection exists. The hospital has a 200-bed capacity and serves the southern West Bank with a population of 600,000.

  • 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 Medical Relief Society in Jiftlik, West Bank, services 6,000 residents of an isolated area in 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.