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Marking one year of MAP’s COVID-19 emergency response in Palestine and Lebanon

MAP’s Director of Programmes Dr Andy Ferguson, describes the work we have been doing to save lives in one year of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

يتعرض النظام الصحي الفلسطيني الى ضغوطات كثيرة بعد تزايد عدد الاصابات بفيروس كوفيد-19 في الضفة الغربية

الارتفاع المقلق في عدد الإصابات بفيروس كوفيد -19 يضع مرة أخرى ضغوطات هائلة على الخدمات الصحية الفلسطينية في الضفة الغربية.

West Bank health system under strain amid COVID-19 surge

A worrying surge in COVID-19 cases is once again placing immense pressures on Palestinian health services in the West Bank.

COVID-19 emergency update: MAP calls on UK to help Gaza breathe as oxygen supplies dwindle

Our team in Gaza are warning of very urgent shortages to essential materials including oxygen supply for patients, and a growing crisis in child malnutrition.

Experts warn of Gaza’s imminent health system collapse as COVID-19 continues to spread

Health experts in Gaza have warned that the local health care system is days away from being overwhelmed, as COVID-19 continue to rapidly spread.

MAP supports essential respirator training for Palestinian health workers battling COVID-19

Training doctors and nurses to use Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) respirators in Palestine.

Tip of the iceberg: deeper implications of COVID-19 for Palestinian communities

The rate of COVID-19 infections is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the pandemic’s humanitarian impact. Seven months since the first case in Palestine, the economic, social and health effects of the pandemic are severely affecting other aspects of life.

MAP responding to COVID-19 outbreak in Gaza amid fears of health system collapse

Cases of COVID-19 continue to spread in Gaza. MAP is deeply concerned by the outbreak and fears that the health sector will be overwhelmed.

مؤسسات بريطانية تقدم أجهزة تنفس اصطناعي حديثة لتلبية احتياجات الفلسطينيين في مواجهة فايروس الكورونا

رام الله، 10 أيلول 2020 – قامت جمعية التربية الطبية الدولية 2000 (IMET2000) وجمعية العون الطبي للفلسطينيين (MAP)، وبدعم من القنصلية البريطانية العامة، اليوم بتسليم 15 جهاز تنفس اصطناعي من نوع حديث إلى وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية في رام الله.

British organisations deliver respirators to Palestine to support COVID-19 response

The International Medical Education Trust 2000 and MAP, supported by the British Consulate General, have delivered 15 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure respirators to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah.

MAP declares healthcare emergency across Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon

Gaza’s first community COVID-19 cases are only the latest crisis in a pan-regional humanitarian emergency affecting Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon

Update: MAP’s emergency response to the Beirut explosion

The permanent team of MAP in Lebanon has been responding with local partners to the massive explosion on 4 August which devastated much of Beirut.

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