#Healthcare

Thank you to everyone who donated to keep the MAP mobile health clinic on the road!

The Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) mobile clinic is a vital lifeline for Palestinians in the Jordan Valley. Thank you to all those who contributed to the appeal. We have now reached the target to purchase a replacement vehicle and can keep this crucial service on the road.

Parliamentarians witness barriers to health caused by prolonged occupation

This month MAP’s CEO, Aimee Shalan, was in the West Bank with Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East’s (LFPME) delegation of Emily Thornberry MP, Fabian Hamilton MP and Andrew Slaughter MP, witnessing the barriers to health and dignity caused by life under prolonged occupation.

Shadow Foreign Secretary visits MAP-supported cancer clinic in the West Bank

This week Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) was pleased to welcome our local MP (Islington South) and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, to the MAP-supported Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre in Ramallah.

“I just sit and watch my son in the incubator with tears in my eyes”

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) visited the neonatal unit at Al-Shifa Hospital to talk to staff and the families of new-born babies who live – and die – on the front-line of the humanitarian emergency in Gaza.

MAP delivers petition demanding health and dignity for Palestinians

On Wednesday 1 November, on the eve of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) delivered our petition to No.10 Downing Street, calling on the UK Government to do more to support the rights to health and dignity of Palestinians.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the West Bank

In the West Bank, MAP’s partner, the Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre, have been holding a variety of events as part of their Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign.

MAP supporting Palestine’s next generation of family doctors

Read more about how Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is supporting vital initiatives to develop true family health care in the West Bank.

Take action: call on the UK Government to help save lives in Gaza

Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian emergency. Please write to your MP and ask them to call on the UK government to take action to support patients in Gaza.

Annual Fundraising Day for Scottish Medical Aid for Palestinians

Come along to Scottish MAP's annual fundraiser in Edinburgh on Saturday 28 October.

Training Palestinian health workers in specialist burns care

A team from MAP caught up with two members of staff working at the new Burns Unit in Alia Hospital, Hebron, to find out about their work and the training they have received, and how it will help them provide high-quality care for years to come.

Palestinian voices from Lebanon

Last week MAP spoke with seven Palestinian women living in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ein el Hilweh, after becoming double-displaced due to the war in Syria. The women and are part of a MAP-supported reproductive health programme.

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

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