{"id":252854,"date":"2021-05-25T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=252854"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:23:01","slug":"unrwa-releases-health-annual-report-for-2020-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-releases-health-annual-report-for-2020-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Releases Health Annual Report for 2020 – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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25 May 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA) has released its Health Annual Report for 2020<\/a>, which provides essential data and information regarding the health situation of Palestine refugees in the Agency\u2019s five fields of operations \u2013 Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, and Syria, as well as\u00a0the work of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health programme. The emphasis of this year\u2019s report was mainly on the adaptation of the Health Programmes activities to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and the innovative ways implemented to efficiently keep delivering essential health services to Palestine refugees during this hard time.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0presents the progress in the Agency\u2019s Health Programme (HP) efforts to meet the continuously changing health needs of Palestine refugees and to overcome all challenges that face achieving health goals so that no Palestine refugee is left behind, because everyone matters. In 2020,\u00a0more than three million registered Palestine refugees received health services free of charge at 141 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA primary health care centres, served by about 3,000 health staff who provided some 5.8 million medical consultations.<\/p>\n

The release of its annual report came at the end of an annual virtual event on Zoom organized by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Health Department and The Lancet; the renown medical journal, collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO), and other stakeholders on the margins of the 74th<\/sup>\u00a0World Health Assembly. This is the eighth of a series of meetings that started in 2014 and used to be held in Geneva and became virtual last year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The theme for this webinar was \u201cGaza: Upholding the human crisis in Palestine.\u201d The focus of the panel members was on the current human crisis (i.e. more than humanitarian crisis) in Palestine, with particular emphasis on Gaza, with the aim to unfold this human crisis and its impact on the health of Palestinians and Palestine refugees in Gaza and Palestine at large.<\/p>\n

Two weeks from now, starting on 10 May, there has been a dramatic intensification in violence in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), including an escalation in hostilities leading to massive Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and clashes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This escalation of violence and threat of dispossession is part of the ongoing\u00a0Nakba, or \u2018catastrophe\u2019 in Arabic. \u00a0Seventy-three years after more than 700,000 Palestinians became refugees following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict,\u00a0Palestine refugees continue to suffer from the loss of their homeland and dispossession of their property, they have remained a scattered people, further displaced by conflicts, blockaded, and living under occupation, deprived of rights and fervently longing for a resolution of their exile and dispossession.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Health Department\u00a0remains committed, as it did for the past 73 years, to serving Palestine refugee health and well-being, along with fulfilling their human needs that other Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA programmes support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Background Information:\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support has been outpaced by the growth in needs. As a result, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA programme budget, which supports the delivery of core essential services, operates with a large shortfall. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA encourages all Member States to work collectively to exert all possible efforts to fully fund the Agency\u2019s programme budget. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA emergency programmes and key projects, also operating with large shortfalls, are funded through separate funding portals.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and mandated to provide assistance and protection to some 5.7 million Palestine refugees registered with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA across its five fields of operation. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip achieve their full human development potential, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, protection and microfinance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sami Mshasha<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Director of Communications, Arabic Language Spokesperson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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+972 (0)54 216 8295<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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+972 (0)258 90724<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tamara Alrifai<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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25 May 2021 Annual Report Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA) has released its Health Annual Report for 2020, which provides essential data and information regarding the health situation of Palestine refugees in the Agency\u2019s five fields of operations \u2013 Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[909,933,2241],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2533,2153,1745],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-252854","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-jordan","country-lebanon","country-syria","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-health","document-subject-refugee-camps","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/252854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/252854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=252854"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=252854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}