Training
MAP aims to improve regular access to primary health care services, including ante-natal and post-natal care, in the most needy areas through improving the skills of local community health workers and other medical staff working in these areas.
- Working closely with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society School of Community Health, MAP is supporting the training of 20 young women, primarily from disadvantaged rural communities, as community health workers. The project aims at strengthening the provision of high quality primary health care to marginalised and remote communities, particularly Bedouin communities and areas most affected by the Wall in the West Bank (Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilia, Salfeet Ramallah and Hebron Districts). The training, which focuses on the particular health needs of Palestinian communities, will take place over two years and provide participants with nursing, social and counselling skills.
- MAP has supported the training of doctors in Gaza in advanced life support for paediatric patients. The difficulties associated with the evacuation of emergency paediatric cases from Gaza in the past have highlighted the need for well-trained doctors on the ground.