Program’s overview:
Near East Council of Churches Committee
for Refugee work (NECCCRW) core stone is the health program; as NECCCRW
believes that good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained
economic and social development.
The program launched in 1952 to provide adequate health care services, and to
assess and improve the quality of health care to Palestinian refugees in the
Gaza Strip. It describes the health status and health services of the
Palestinian population living in the Gaza Strip.
The health program aims at delivering health services around people’s needs and
expectations. The provided health care services try to meet the main health
problems in the Palestinian vulnerable society in an equal manner to all
individuals irrespective of their gender, age, caste, color location and,
social class and political affiliation.
Along with the primary health services, NECCCRW provides psychosocial support
to women and children to create physical and emotional healthy environment.
The program runs three main clinics as the following table shows:
|
#
|
Health
clinic
|
Year
of Establishment
|
Location
/ Governorate
|
Estimated
No. of beneficiaries each year
|
|
New pregnant
|
New Children
|
New Families
|
No of patients
|
|
1.
|
Al Shyja’ya Clinic
|
1967
|
Al Shyja’ya/ Gaza City
|
700
|
2000
|
1000
|
10,000
|
|
2.
|
Al Daraj Clinic
|
1973
|
Al Daraj/ Gaza City
|
500
|
2000
|
800
|
10,000
|
|
3.
|
Rafah Clinic
|
2002
|
Kkyrbit AlA’das/ South
|
200
|
1000
|
500
|
8,000
|
|
Total
|
1400
|
5000
|
2300
|
28000
|
On 10th January 2009 during the Cast Lead Operation against the Gaza Strip, Al
Shyja’ya Clinic was demolished causing the loss of all equipment, commodities
and medical records. But on May 2009, it was rebuilt again to continue serving
the people in the area.
The patients at all clinics are requested to pay nominal contribution for their
treatment to enhance the sense of responsibility and ownership.
Program purpose:
Contribute to improving the health status in the neediest and marginalized
areas in the Gaza Strip.
Program’s objectives:
- Provide adequate primary health care services in the
poor, vulnerable and crowded localities.
- Promote and enhance the public and environmental
health awareness.
- Reduce the level of malnutrition and anemia
- Enhance the psychosocial well being for women and
children
- Enhance cooperation and coordination with relevant
organizations to avoid duplication
Target groups:
1- Pregnant women aged from 18 to 40 years old
2- Children (Both gender) from birth to 12 years old
3- Patients of all ages
4- Women and ladies of all ages
5- Dental patients (both gender) of all ages