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Gaza Health Access 2022

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Throughout the year, WHO continued to document the impact of barriers to health access on the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Below are four of the cases documented during 2022:

January

Saleem, a 16-year-old child with leukaemia, dies after barriers to hospital admission

Saleem An-Nawati was 16 years old from Gaza and had acute leukaemia diagnosed in late 2021. He was initially referred for an appointment at An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus in the West Bank on 28 November 2021, but he received no definitive response to his permit application in time for his appointment. Saleem was delayed a permit to reach treatment on two further occasions, for appointments at An-Najah Hospital on 6 and 19 December ..read more

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March

Gaza child dies following repeated permit delays by Israel

Fatma Al-Masri was a 19-month-old girl from Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. She died on 25 March 2022 after she was delayed access to lifesaving cardiac surgery for nearly three months. Fatma was born with a congenital heart condition known as an atrial septal defect. She needed curative surgery at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem and was required by Israel to obtain a permit to reach her hospital appointment. Her family applied three times for permits to reach hospital appointments on 28 December 2021, 13 February 2022, and 5 April 2022... read more

March

May

5-year-old Ahlam repeatedly delayed access to a critical operation for her hearing

Ahlam is a 5-year-old girl born in Beit-Lahia in the north of the Gaza Strip. Since she was six months old, Ahlam’s family noticed she was not as responsive as other children her age and suspected that a problem with her hearing. They took her to two charitable organizations in the Gaza Strip, Atfaluna and Hamad Hospital in Gaza City, who examined her hearing and diagnosed Ahlam with partial hearing loss.. read more

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July

Ahmed, a patient with cancer, delayed critical follow up for four months

Ahmed is 39 years old and from the Gaza Strip. He was diagnosed with cancer in his right parotid gland in 2013, receiving surgery and treatment in Egypt. In 2016, doctors found a recurrence of his cancer and he had further surgery in 2017 at Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv. There, Ahmed received medicines, radiotherapy and chemotherapy to increase the chances of being successfully treated and since then has needed regular follow up, including medical imaging (PET scans) not available in the Gaza Strip... read more

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