Today, Thursday, the Center for Reconstruction of the Parties opened "complex fractures" in the Gaza Strip, with the participation of foreign personalities representing international and international bodies.
The new center was opened in coordination between the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. In the presence of Jimmy McGoldrick, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Palestine, Dr. Gerald Rukenshoap, Director of the WHO Office in Palestine, and the ships Von Bergsdorf - Representative of the European Union.
The new center will provide hundreds of Palestinians with gunshot wounds, permanent, specialized and focused care. It features a 32-bed suite, two specialist operating rooms, and 25 specialist staff in multiple fields (including four orthopedic surgeons, psychologists, and physiotherapists).
From the beginning of the Great Return March in the Gaza Strip in March 2018 to December 31, 2019, 33,141 injuries and 322 martyrs (including 65 children) have been reported. While more than 7,951 people suffered gunshot wounds, 88% of them were on the limbs. According to global health data.
This collective shock has placed an enormous burden on the health-care system in Gaza, which is already suffering from a lack of resources and excessive burdens, which faces an acute shortage of essential medicines and supplies, and lacks specialized doctors and nurses. According to a statement by the organization.
The new center was built to tackle this threat, with generous support from the United Kingdom, humanitarian aid from the European Union, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Humanitarian Fund for the Occupied Palestinian Territory - United Nations Office, and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development. As reported by the World Health Organization.
This center was equipped to provide integrated services and not only surgeons, but also to provide physical therapy, psychological support, and more, said Yousef Abu al-Rish, undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
And that the center will provide an integrated service worthy of the sacrifices of the Palestinian people. Noting that previously these services were present but scattered in different places, and they were grouped as integrated services in one place in order to ensure better results.
While Abdel-Latif Haj, Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry in Gaza, said that there are medical cadres from Gaza trained with British help, noting that the center will form a central unit that brings together all cadres in one place to ensure all resources and capabilities are pumped in order to develop this service to the maximum degree possible to ensure rescue The lower limbs of the wounded and those who undergo 12 to 15 surgeries in order to save their limbs.
