The World Well being Group (WHO) and Japan have signed a USD 8 million (EGP 391 million) grant settlement to offer important help for critically unwell sufferers evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Egypt for medical remedy.
The settlement, witnessed by distinguished officers resembling Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt’s Minister of Worldwide Cooperation, and Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Jap Mediterranean, goals to strengthen Egypt’s well being care system and improve the readiness of hospitals to successfully accommodate medical evacuees.
Below the settlement, WHO will collaborate with the Egyptian Ministry of Well being and Inhabitants to make sure satisfactory medical provides, gear, and medicines can be found in hospitals.
Capability-building initiatives will even be carried out to equip healthcare professionals with life-saving emergency care expertise.
The mission will deal with designated services throughout a number of governorates in Egypt. This contains well being services in North Sinai Governorate, Ismailia, Port Mentioned, Suez, Damietta, Higher Cairo, and Sharqiya governorates.
The goal is to create a complete community of healthcare help for sufferers from the Gaza Strip.
The grant settlement will allow WHO to deal with the pressing medical wants of injured and severely unwell sufferers, offering surgical care, medical remedy for communicable and non-communicable ailments, psychological trauma help, and different vital interventions.
Japan’s important contribution highlights its dedication to the area, with almost USD 160 million (EGP 7 billion) in contributions to the WHO Jap Mediterranean Area since 2016.
Since November 2023, Egypt has been providing free-of-charge medical remedy to severely unwell and injured sufferers from the Gaza Strip. Egypt has offered medical care to over 2,200 Palestinians because of the destruction of quite a few hospitals and medical services by Israel within the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian docs have efficiently performed near 1,200 surgical procedures on Palestinian sufferers.
The WHO estimates that over 8,000 folks within the Gaza Strip require medical evacuation, together with 6,000 with war-related accidents and a pair of,000 with different medical situations.
