Medical Referrals from Gaza

18 July 2011

(WHO) Each year thousands of Palestinians residing in the Gaza Strip are referred by their physicians to hospitals outside of Gaza in order to access necessary, often life-saving,medical services that are unavailable locally. The need for referrals outside of Gaza has been exacerbated by the lack of adequate development of the public health care systemfor the population of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.

The majority of these referrals are for diagnosis and treatment services in five common specialties - cardiovascular diseases,oncology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery and ophthalmology.

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