{"id":259877,"date":"2021-10-18T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=259877"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:10:53","slug":"unops-and-pa-ministry-of-health-sign-an-agreement-for-covid-19-crisis-response-emergency-support-funded-by-govenment-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unops-and-pa-ministry-of-health-sign-an-agreement-for-covid-19-crisis-response-emergency-support-funded-by-govenment-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS and PA Ministry of Health Sign an Agreement for COVID-19 Crisis Response Emergency Support Funded by Govenment of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ramallah , 14 October 2021 –<\/strong>\u00a0Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS and the Ministry of Health signed an Agreement today in Ramallah whereby Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS will be implementing the procurement services for \u201cThe Programme for COVID -19 Crisis Response Emergency Support\u201d under the Japanese Grant Assistance funded by the Government of Japan through JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY( JICA) for the benefit of the Ministry.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Health Minister Dr. Mai Al Kaila<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS Director of the Jerusalem Office Mr. Tokumitsu KOBAYASHI<\/strong>\u00a0attended the signing ceremony in the Ministry of Health. This project comes as part of a eight million dollar Grant provided by the Government of Japan to the Palestinian Authority under the Exchange of Notes signed June 2021, for the procurement of COVID-19 related equipment, including vehicles with cold insulation function for vaccine transportation.<\/p>\n

This project comes at a critical time and will significantly contribute to the readiness of the Ministry of Health to respond to the COVID-19 crisis through its health facilities in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony,\u00a0H.E. Dr. Mai Al Kaila – Minister of Health<\/strong>\u00a0expressed her deep gratitude to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS for their efforts in completing this vital project, and the continuous support of the Government of Japan. “This project will support the Ministry of Health in procuring COVID-19 related medical supplies including the vehicles for vaccine transportation and other laboratories equipment” she stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased that Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS through JICA will be able to provide the medical equipment and to West Bank and Gaza laboratories to enhance their services in response to the current COVID-19 crisis \u201d said\u00a0Tokumitsu Kobayashi, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS Director in the Jerusalem Office.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS remains ready to further support Japan in Palestine to fruitfully respond to the urgent needs of the Palestinian healthcare system\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. Rasha Barakat<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS Jerusalem Operations Centre<\/p>\n

Partnerships Officer<\/p>\n

Mobile: Office: +972 (0)2 628 1881<\/p>\n

E-mail: Rashak@unops.org<\/p>\n

For more information about Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS, please visit our website:\u00a0www.unops.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629   Ramallah , 14 October 2021 –\u00a0Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS and the Ministry of Health signed an Agreement today in Ramallah whereby Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOPS will be implementing the procurement services for \u201cThe Programme for COVID -19 Crisis Response Emergency Support\u201d under the Japanese Grant Assistance funded by the Government of Japan through JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY( JICA) […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[906],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[3185],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2533],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6544],"class_list":["post-259877","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-japan","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-office-for-project-services-unops","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-health","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/259877","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\/259877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=259877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}