Mar, 2025
Anera’s clinics – set up in areas crowded with displaced families in Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis – are treating hundreds of people every day.
In the midst of Gaza’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, access to basic healthcare has become a daily struggle for hundreds of thousands of families. Widespread displacement, the collapse of health infrastructure, border closures, inflated medicine prices and power outages have left entire communities cut off from care. In this context, mobile health clinics provide vital services.
With support from Americares, Anera's health teams are bringing essential services directly to people in need. In just the first few weeks of 2025, Anera's Americares-funded work has delivered 37 free medical health days – offering physiotherapy, gynecology, pediatrics, and general medicine services – providing 1,697 consultations and treatments to 1,337 patients, including 36 persons with disabilities, and distributing 16,333 life-sustaining nutritional supplies to those in need.
Gaza’s volatile environment demands constant adaptation. In response to shifting displacement patterns and ongoing infrastructure disruptions, Anera has deployed mobile health teams and temporary structures as flexible, adaptable solutions. We build schedules around health staff availability and the supply of medicines, to ensure that services like pediatrics, physiotherapy and gynecology offered can be provided throughout the week.
"Anera’s clinics are staffed by skilled and committed healthcare professionals as well as a data entry specialist, a security guard and a cleaner to maintain a sterile environment," says Anera Product Donations Officer and Pharmacist Ahmad Najjar. "We work out of clinics built entirely from recycled materials, including scrap wood from aid pallets. Despite the makeshift conditions, though, we're providing high-quality healthcare. Americares is one of our donors that is very generously making this possible, on top of providing donated supplies and medicines."
Conditions in Gaza are deteriorating now because, as of March 2, Israel has halted all aid coming into the territory. While Anera is currently relying on pre-positioned and donated medications, continued restrictions will further squeeze access to vital supplies.
No matter how the situation unfolds, our mobile clinics will continue to provide care in Gaza. Anera’s teams will adjust quickly with shifting realities – by sourcing medications locally when possible and reallocating resources to ensure care continues where it’s needed most.
The work Anera’s amazing Gaza team does is only possible with the support of amazing partners like Americares and individual donors from across the globe. Thank you!
