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GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that it has conducted, since the start of the siege on Gaza over 8000 diagnostic and therapeutic catheterizations and pacemaker implantations, as well as 800 open-heart surgeries.
The Ministry revealed, in a report published within “building the homeland” campaign, that the first pacemaker was implanted on 15 May 2009, noting that it was keen to provide such services in order to mitigate the suffering of the patients and save huge sums of money.
The ministry added that it had opened a cardiac catheterization center, which is the first and only one in the Gaza Strip, on 18/11/2006 to serve about 1.7 million people, pointing out that the first two therapeutic catheter operations had been conducted on 11May 2008 for two patients who had been suffering from severe narrowing in the coronary arteries.
It stated that the catheterization center collects diagnostic and therapeutic fees estimated at about 50.000 shekels monthly, equivalent to 150-180 thousand dollars a year, noting that 7 cases have died in the center.
Dr Mohamed Habib, Head of Cardiac Catheterization Center in the European Gaza hospital said that the Center aims at providing the diagnostic and therapeutic catheter service for the heart as well as the coronary and peripheral arteries at home without having to travel abroad, and at closing the file of treatment from heart disease abroad.
He also stated that a local crew including cardiologists and nurses have been trained on conducting catheterization, noting that the center is keen to conduct scientific research and to frequently organize scientific conferences on this field.
Dr. Habib said that 5600 cases of diagnostic catheterization, 850 cases of therapeutic catheterization and 95 pacemaker’s implants have been conducted in the center, in addition to scores of cases that underwent angiograms through the esophagus, and coronary and peripheral diagnostic catheterization.
The Ministry said in its report that the first center for open-heart surgery in Gaza was founded in 1998 with support from the Egyptian Republic and started working at the beginning of the year 2010 after equipping it with the staff and resources, noting that the first open-heart surgery was conducted on 17/1/2010.
Meanwhile, Dr. Marwan Yaghi, an advisory and heart surgeon, said that the Gaza Strip needs, daily, from 1 to 3 open-heart surgeries, pointing out that an operation abroad (as in the West Bank and Egypt may cost from $ 10,000 to $ 15,000.
He confirmed that the ministry is working to set up more open-heart surgery centers, and that it is currently preparing for opening a heart surgery center in the European Gaza Hospital.
Dr. Yaghi pointed to the obstacles facing the center, including the shortage of medicines and medical consumables, the siege and all its components and crises, and the shortage in human staff, expressing his hope for supporting more training programs for the medical staff.
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Ministery declares state of emergency – Photography
Gaza Health Care in Crisis – January 2012 – Photography
Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention clearly establish that Israel, as the occupying power, not only has a duty to ensure medical supplies reach hospitals in the OPT, but to ensure and maintain the services of the hospitals too. As High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, other states not only have a moral duty but also a legal obligation to ensure Israel abides by its commitments to the protected population of the OPT.
UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, As a States Party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel is obliged under Article 24 of the treaty to recognise the right of every child under its effective jurisdiction “to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services”.
Update as per June 3, 2012
- June 14, 2012 | WHO: Gaza closure compromises right to health | Maan
- May 29, 2012 | Fuel Crisis Impacts Water and Sanitation Health Services in Gaza | Source
- May 20, 2012 | “Long and Healthy Lives” of Babies in Danger as Vaccins are Depleted | Alert
- May 18, 2012 | Lives of more than 400 kidney patients at risk in Gaza | Source
note occpal | June 3, 2012 | At this moment 204 types of medication and 218 types of medical consumables are depleted completely. 200 others are on their way to depletion. Including zero stock of Thalassamia and Cancer medications are not available.
The fuel crisis prevents normal operation of nurseries, ICU heart units and the emergency generators will encounter problems to face normal surgery schedules. Due to blackouts of power, also sewerage, water pumps and all operating on power shuts down which poses extra health risks which is unacceptable.
The international community though, is not pressuring Israel though about it’s killing by proxy policies which causes 1.7 million people in Gaza now to be effectively in a state of emergency and severe deprivation.
More Resources or related information:
- June 9, 2012 | Gaza health ministry cautions over 450 medical items running out | Petra Jordan News Agency
- Over 173 Children died due 2 obstructed healthcare: Report Al-Mezan
- Download the Full Report of Al-Mezan (PDF)
- Palestinian deaths following infringement of right to medical treatment – B’ Tselem – Report
- 35 babies died at Israeli checkpoints – Report
- Israel Kills Dialysis in Gaza – 450 Patients Lives Are In Danger – Report
- Dialysis in Paralysis | Electronic Intifada – Report
- Factsheet on Gazan Children’s Access to Medical Care – Al Mezan | 173 children died – Report
- UK Diplomat wife dies after forced to renew Jerusalem permit – Report
- 2 Children Lives of Dozens of Others Endangered Israel’s Infringement of Medical Care – Report
- Infant close 2 death as Israel denies medication – Report
- Starve Them – Shoot Them – Then Give Them Cancer – Report
- Israel to Supreme Court to prevent exposure of document containing minimal calorie requirements for Gaza – May1, 2011 – Report
- Israel Restricts the Access of Gaza Patients to Urgent Medical Treatment if their Condition is Not Life-Threatening | In violation of Medical Ethics and International Law | Al Mezan | June 30, 2010 – Report
- Children and Armed Conflict: Developments in the OPT | UN | April 13, 2010 – Report
- Water apartheid leaves Palestinian children ill | Report
Medical care by asked/forced collaboration
- Palestinians hoping to leave Gaza Strip asked to collaborate with Israel – PHR Isael – Dec 28, 2011 – Report
Torture, Healthcare or neglect of healthcare in Prisons
- UFree: Israeli doctors conceal torture incidents in Israeli jails | UFree Report
- Doctoring the Evidence Abandoning the Victim – Complicity of Israeli physicians in torture – PHR – Report
Video
- Gaza Siege devastates Health care – Jan 2, 2011 – video
- Avoidable Death of Pregnant women their Unborn at Israeli Checkpoints – video
- If you have no idea about avoidable mortality by Israel’s deliberate policies: Meet BABY FIRAS – video
SHOCKING REPORT ABOUT EFFECTS FOR HEALTH BY POLICIES DISCRIMINATION OF MEDICAL CARE ACCESS TO CARE:
- Arab-Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Discrimination in Access to Health; Lower Health – PHR – Report
While in the horrible holocaust, 1 in 6, so 1 million people died of the Nazi but exactly similar deliberate deprivation, Israel is doing exactly the same to Palestinians. Research (see link below) showed the annual deathrate by violent passive aggression is about 5000 deaths a year. Called Avoidable mortality or Excess Death.
The Palestinian Genocide – The fact which are being silenced | Research
- Avoidable Mortality – Research by Dr. Gideon Polya
- For all related news about health / related issues in Palestine – Category Health
- All massacred Palestinians |2011/2012
- All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians
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- Special Topic | Palestinian Children
- Special Topic | Ethnic Cleansing
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How many more dead corpses of Palestinians and their children does the international community need to see in order to act?
How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed?
How long so the world intervenes in this ongoing warcrime and it will be stopped once and for all?For the sake of children and ill people in Palestine, share this post as wide as you can and keep sharing it. Health is no choice for many, right to medical care is a Human Right. Infringement of such is a passive form of aggression which policies Israel deliberately deploys with the intention to ethnic cleanse.