{"id":204291,"date":"2016-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204291"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:49","slug":"auto-insert-204291","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204291\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral of Patients from the Gaza Strip – WHO Monthly Report (March 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Health Access for Referral Patients from the Gaza Strip <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Summary:  March 2016<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Erez crossing <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>3 in 10 patients delayed or denied permits:<\/strong><\/span> O<\/strong><\/span>f 2,205 patient applications submitted in March for permits to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments, 68.93% were approved. 121 patients (5.49%), including five children and five elderly persons over 60 years, were denied and 564 patients (25.58%), including 177 children and 50 elderly people over 60, received no response to their applications (Palestinian District Liaison office in Gaza).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>82 patients requested for security interview (GSS):<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>48 males and 34 females were requested for GSS interviews during March (page 7).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>4 in 10 patient companions delayed or denied permits<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>(page 5).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>2 patients arrested at Erez<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>(page 7).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Restricted access for humanitarian health staff through Erez<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>(page<\/span> 7). <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Rafah exit<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span>  <\/strong><\/span>No access to Egypt during March:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>According to Palestinian officials at Rafah terminal, the Rafah border terminal was closed over the month. No medical delegates or medical aid entered Gaza through Egypt during the month.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ministry of Health Referrals in March<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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• <\/strong>Of the 2,363 patients<\/strong> referred by the Ministry of Health in March to outside care, 1,000 patients were sent to the East Jerusalem hospitals; total estimated cost was NIS 10,342,514<\/strong>. The top 5 needed procedures for Gaza patients were in oncology, MRI, paediatrics, haematology, and heart catheterization.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Health Access for Referral Patients from the Gaza Strip Summary:  March 2016 Erez crossing • 3 in 10 patients delayed or denied permits: Of 2,205 patient applications submitted in March for permits to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments, 68.93% were approved. 121 patients (5.49%), including five children and five elderly persons over 60 years, were […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2929,2949],"document-source":[2529],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,2033,5358,2005,2533,1805],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204291","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-situation-report","document-category-update","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-children","document-subject-ClosuresCurfewsBlockades","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-occupation","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}