  {"id":204610,"date":"2008-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204610"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:48:27","slug":"auto-insert-204610","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204610\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA health programme &#8211; Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA information note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27581%27%20height%3D%2761%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20581%2061%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27581%27%20height%3D%2761%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/3533f510602b4533852576bd00525c79_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"61px\" width=\"581px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA provides one of the most cost- effective and efficient health delivery systems in the Middle East. Some 4,200 health workers provide health care to Palestine refugees in 134 centres across Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s five fields of operations &#8211; Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. For 2008-2009 the health programme accounts for $212 million out of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s regular budget of $1.1 billion.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:10px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>What health care services does Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s health programme offer? <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Primary health care such as general medical checks, preventive maternal and child care, radiology and dental care.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Vaccination campaigns in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Subsidised secondary and tertiary health care (such as hospital procedures) for registered Palestine refugees in host authority hospitals.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Family planning services.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Mental health interventions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Physical rehabilitation services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Do Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA health clinics only serve refugees?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Yes, but services are extended to non-refugees during emergencies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">For example, during a strike at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in early 2007, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA filled a void in preventative care for the entire Palestinian population in the West Bank. During that period, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA health care staff administered over 16,000 vaccinations to non-refugees in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>How does the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA health programme service refugees in times of crisis?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Access restrictions in the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank and Gaza Strip) have compelled Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA to increase its delivery of services to maintain standards of care, through recruiting more staff, establishing mobile clinics and increasing the number of health centres.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">In the West Bank, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA provides mobile health teams dispatched to refugees and non-refugees in 140 villages with limited access to health care due to imposed closures.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Due to the protracted emergency in Gaza, there has been an increase in the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, particularly in children. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA provides counseling and mental health awareness activities, primarily in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools, through its community mental health programme launched in 2005.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">During the conflict in Lebanon from May to September 2007, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA coordinated much of the emergency activities of the crisis and extended its health services to over 30,000 Palestine refugees displaced from Nahr el- Bared camp.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">In Syria, some 3,000 Palestine refugees who fled the war in Iraq receive full health care services from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA in partnership with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>What other health-related services does Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA provide?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">In most of the 58 camps across the five fields of the Agency&#8217;s operations, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA also provides environmental health services such as water, sewerage and drainage systems integrated with those of municipalities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">In 2007, sanitation workers cleared over 65,000 tons of domestic and commercial waste and conducted approximately 1,290 tests on water supplies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, san-serif;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA takes a preventative approach to ensure that refugees living in camps are safe from infectious diseases that can spread through contaminated water and unhygienic surroundings<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>About Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRW<\/strong><strong>A<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Some 4.6 million Palestine refugees in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s five fields of operations &#8211; Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem &#8211; are eligible for Agency services, including education, healthcare, social services, shelter, micro-credit loans and emergency aid. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA employs nearly 30,000 staff, the vast majority of whom are Palestine refugees. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s operations are financed almost entirely by voluntary con&#173;tributions from donors. The Agency&#8217;s regular budget for 2008-2009 is $1.1 billion, which covers the recurrent costs of the Agency&#8217;s education, health and relief and social services activities. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA&#8217;s headquarters are in Gaza City and Amman.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27366%27%20height%3D%2714%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20366%2014%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27366%27%20height%3D%2714%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/3533f510602b4533852576bd00525c79_image1.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"14px\" width=\"366px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA provides one of the most cost- effective and efficient health delivery systems in the Middle East. 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