{"id":210081,"date":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=210081"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:52:47","slug":"auto-insert-210081","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-210081\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral of Patients from the Gaza Strip – WHO monthly report (April 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ref: 4 (June 6, 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:  April 2016<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Approval rates for patients' permits drop:<\/strong><\/span> 70.9% of 1,944 patient applications submitted for permits to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments in April were approved. 146 patients (7.5%), including three children and five elderly persons over 60 years, were denied; 420 patients (21.6%), including 120 children and 47 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>High number of patients requested for security interview (GSS):<\/strong><\/span> 106 patients, among them 49 females, were requested for GSS interviews during April <\/span>(page 7).<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Approval rates for patient companions'<\/strong><\/span> permit applications drop to 6 in 10 <\/span>(page 5).<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>A patient arrested<\/strong><\/span> in GSS interview at Erez <\/span>(page 7).<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Restricted access to humanitarian workers through Erez<\/strong><\/span> (page 8). <\/strong><\/span>Rafah <\/strong><\/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 April:<\/strong><\/span> According to Palestinian officials at Rafah terminal, the Rafah border terminal was closed totally during the month. No medical delegates or medical aid entered Gaza through Egypt during the month.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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•<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Ministry of Health referred <\/span>1,905 patients <\/strong><\/span>in April to outside care with an estimated cost of <\/span>NIS 8,349,514. <\/strong><\/span>The top 5 needed procedures for Gaza patients were in oncology, hematology, heart catheterization, ophthalmology, and pediatrics.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Ref: 4 (June 6, 2016 Health Access for Referral Patients from the Gaza Strip Summary:  April 2016 Erez crossing • Approval rates for patients' permits drop: 70.9% of 1,944 patient applications submitted for permits to exit Gaza through Erez checkpoint for hospital appointments in April were approved. 146 patients (7.5%), including three children and five elderly persons over […]<\/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-210081","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\/210081","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\/210081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=210081"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=210081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}