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Improving emergency care in Gaza’s busiest hospital

Read how MAP is helping improve care at Gaza's busiest Emergency Department.

Join our Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2017 Campaign

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, MAP is encouraging supporters to write to their MP and urge the UK Government to to help end barriers to care for patients living under occupation and blockade.

Improving breast cancer care behind Gaza’s closure

Medical Aid for Palestinians’ (MAP) Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, Rohan Talbot, reports on this week’s breast cancer mission to Gaza.

Six Gaza cancer patients die after being denied access to treatment

MAP is deeply concerned that five female cancer patients died in August after being prevented from attending hospital appointments outside of Gaza.

In numbers: Gaza’s healthcare emergency

A Special Situation Report released last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores the seriousness of Gaza's healthcare emergency

"Each time I go to Gaza, things are worse than before"

MAP trustee Andrew Karney writes on his recent visit to Gaza and reflects upon the extreme challenges Gaza’s healthcare system is now experiencing.

Two more patients die in Gaza after being denied travel for treatment

Two more Palestinian patients have died after being denied permits by Israeli authorities to exit Gaza for medical treatment. Both women were diagnosed with cancer and denied access to vital treatment in Jerusalem.

Gaza experiencing ‘humanitarian emergency’ warn MAP

The situation in Gaza has reached its lowest ebb outside of periods of military attack and should now be considered a humanitarian emergency, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has today warned.

Child dies from water pollution in Gaza amid worsening medical referral restrictions

This week the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has reported on the sad death of five-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Salim al-Sayes.

Supporting the development of Gaza’s physios through training in the UK

Nour, a limb reconstruction physiotherapist from Gaza, was recently in the UK training at King’s College Hospital. MAP caught up with her in London to find out more about her work and how her time in the UK helped her to develop professionally so she can best support her patients in Gaza.

Emergency action: call on the UK government to save lives in Gaza

Join MAP in calling on the UK government to support lifesaving intervention in Gaza.

UK Government responds to our breast cancer campaign

The UK's Department for International Development has responded to our campaign calling on the Government to do more to support Palestinian women affected by breast cancer.

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