Health Care in the West Bank
Dr. Fathiya Mesnef is a star in her West Bank village near Bethlehem. In a place with few doctors, let alone female doctors, Dr. Fathiya runs Al Walajeh Clinic, a state-of-the-art facility Anera built in Area C this year. Overall, she says, “the health care system is lacking and there are many gaps that need to be filled,” yet she makes the most of limited means.
Poverty
In Dr. Fathiya’s hometown of Beit Ummar, most residents make modest incomes as farmers, teachers and construction workers. Many cannot afford adequate health care, including screenings, treatment and expensive medications. When such care is prohibitively expensive, they suffer through the pain. In these poor villages, small local clinics often depend entirely ondonated medicines, which they in turn give to patients free-of-charge.
Nearby in Halhoul, 72-year-old grandmother Aamna Al-Jadaa used to struggle to pick olives on her farmland with her aching arthritic limbs. Like many of her neighbors in Halhoul, Aamna lives in poverty and cannot afford to buy medicine. The town has a high rate of unemployment, so many are in the same situation. The only relief for her chronic pain is the medicine she receives from her local clinic. Its whole stock of medicines comes from Anera.
BY THE NUMBERS
Hurdles to Good Health in Palestine
93%
of Red Crescent ambulances...
reported delays of 10 minutes or longer at checkpoints in the West Bank.
500
or more checkpoints and roadblocks...
make it difficult for Palestinians to travel to health facilities.
35%
of medicines on the essential list...
are at critically low or zero stock.
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Sahar Abu Sido, a nurse at the Gaza Central Blood Bank, is thrilled with the shipment of blood bags Anera delivered.
No words can describe that moment when we can say 'yes, the blood you need is on the way.
The 10-year blockade and a chronic lack of funds make it difficult for her to keep them in stock.
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Sahar Abu Sido, a nurse at the Gaza Central Blood Bank, is thrilled with the shipment of blood bags Anera delivered.
No words can describe that moment when we can say 'yes, the blood you need is on the way.
The 10-year blockade and a chronic lack of funds make it difficult for her to keep them in stock.