{"id":207678,"date":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=207678"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:25:40","slug":"auto-insert-207678","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-207678\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral of Patients from the Gaza Strip – WHO Monthly Report (Oct. 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ref: 10 (November 30, 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Health Access for Referral Patients from the Gaza Strip <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>October permit approval rates drop to lowest in 7 years<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Of 2,019 patient permit applications to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments in October, 44.08% were approved, <\/span>the lowest approval rate since April 2008<\/strong><\/span>. 125 patients (6.19%) were denied permits, including 5 children and 6 elderly persons over 60 years. 1,0004 patients (49.73%) received no response, including 265 children and 116 elderly people over 60 (Palestinian District Liaison office in Gaza).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> 84% of Gaza patients' permit requests were to access treatment within the occupied Palestinian territory,<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>in East Jerusalem or elsewhere in the West Bank.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> Almost two-thirds of patient's companions denied\/delayed:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>The approval rate for permit applications of patient companions was 38%; 7% of the companions were denied permits and the remaining 55% were still pending as of the patients' hospital dates.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> Security interrogations:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>14 patients, among them 6 females, were requested by the General Security Services for interviews at Erez during October. One was approved.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> Humanitarian health workers through Erez:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Of the 4 WHO requests, none were approved: 3 denied and 1 pending.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Access to Egypt:<\/strong><\/span> According to Palestinian officials at Rafah terminal, the Rafah border terminal was open in both directions for 7 days in October allowing 102 patients to travel for health reasons to Egypt.  Seven ambulances were donated and entered Gaza. No medical delegates entered Gaza through Egypt during the month.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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• <\/strong>The Ministry of Health issued 2,098 referrals for (1,989 patients) in October for outside care with an estimated cost of NIS 8,380,300. <\/strong>The top 5 needed specialties for Gaza patients were in oncology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and hematology.<\/p><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/images\/stories\/palestine\/documents\/WHO_monthly_Gaza_access_report-Oct_2016-Final.pdf?ua=1<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ref: 10 (November 30, 2016) Health Access for Referral Patients from the Gaza Strip Summary:  October 2016 Erez crossing • October permit approval rates drop to lowest in 7 years: Of 2,019 patient permit applications to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments in October, 44.08% were approved, the lowest approval rate since April 2008. 125 patients […]<\/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":[2005,2533],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-207678","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-situation-report","document-category-update","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/207678","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\/207678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=207678"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=207678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}