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As you no doubt are aware, a genuine public health emergency is
occurring in Gaza right now. Below is a message from Amineh Ayyad with
information on how you can be of assistance by supporting medical care in Gaza.
Mary Anne
From: Amineh Ayyad
[mailto:amineh.ayyad@...]
Subject: Fwd: Emergency Response to the Humanitarian Crisis and Large
Scale Violence and Attacks Targeting the Gaza Strip
Dear all.
Here is a concrete way to help out Palestinians in Gaza through PMRS
efforts. Medical volunteers, if they are ever allowed in the area would
be of a great help too. Please view the message below and attached files
for information on PMRS' six months emergency project in Gaza. PMRS has
not yet recovered from the bombing and destruction of its mobile clinic form a
few months ago this year. I helped raise funds to obtain equipment
for this clinic in 2002 and it is so sad to see that destroyed and more
destruction of more resources and facilities now.
Please let me know i fyou have any ideas on how to proceed with helping from
Seattle. The 2002 fundraiser was helpful and well attended (400 people,
mainly doctors from Seattle and surrounding states and the local Arab
community).
Thank you, Amineh
--
Amineh Ayyad
Volunteering & Community Advocacy Officer
External Relations Unit
Palestinian Medical Relief Society
P.O. Box 572
Ramallah-Palestine
Tel: +970-2-2969970
Fax: +970-2-2969991
Mobile: +970-598567430
+206-6310121 (USA)
Email: amineh@...
www.pmrs.ps
Dear
Friends and partners
As you are almost certainly aware, Gaza is in
the midst of a terrible humanitarian disaster. Without food, medicines,
electricity, fuel, clean drinking water, or the means to treat human and other
waste, Israel's decision intensify its lockdown on all Gaza's borders and to
halt fuel supplies to the Strip has had disastrous consequences for the state
of public health in the Gaza Strip.
The Heath sector in Gaza is currently in a state
of collapse, with public hospitals full to overflowing. "Doctors,
ambulances and hospitals cannot provide an adequate response to the growing
needs", Dr. Barghouthi highlighted. "Today, there is serious shortage
of medical supplies. Severely injured patients cannot leave the Strip due
to prolonged closures of border crossings. And basic medical supply urgently
needed such as sterilization equipment, needles, anaesthetics, catheters,
gases, oxygen or monitors cannot reach the Gazans."
"It is a humanitarian disaster and a human
tragedy that should be stopped now! Every single human rights granted to the
human being have been violated. It is not time to put an end to the massacre.
At least 345 have been reportedly killed
(including more than 25 children and 9 women), and more than 1,400 have
sustained heavy injuries (including 130 children and 45 women). The number is
expected to rise within the coming hours as more bodies are uncovered from the
rubble, more casualties succumb to their wounds, and more bombs continue to
fall.
PMRS is seeking therefore support to mitigate
the impact of the siege on the health of the Gazan population by strengthening
and expanding the healthcare services it provides to the people of Gaza.
With its long-standing presence in the Gaza
Strip, PMRS' reputation for the provision of quality primary healthcare
services, together with the relationships of trust and cooperation it maintains
with communities throughout Palestine, places it in an unparalleled position to
help ordinary Gazans absorb the shock of the current crisis, by continuing to
emergency and primary medical care to vulnerable group
Best Regards
Sameh jarallah, Bahia Amra
+ 972 5999 40073
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