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The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees

EMERGENCY APPEAL

August 7, 1997

-One Week Under Closure- one week without health care, medical supplies, or daily wages

For one week Palestinians have been confined to their villages and cities. The boarders surrounding every city and village remain sealed, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to be under complete closure imposed by the Israeli Army.

The Palestinian health situation is in a state of crisis. Health facilities have run out of medical supplies; rural communities have gone a full week without medical care; referrals of patients to hospitals in Israel, Jordan and Egypt are being blocked; and Palestinians dependent on daily wages are on the verge of economic depravation.

Yesterday a UPMRC medical team was denied entry into Ramallah by Israeli soldiers even after it was made absolutely clear that they were a medical team traveling for medical purposes. UPMRC medical teams have also been denied entry into Tulkaram, Qalqilya, and villages in the Jordan Valley.

According to the Ministry of Health s (MOH) emergency appeal, many MOH physicians, health workers and nurses have not been able to reach their health facilities, its vaccination activities have stopped completely, and its primary health care system has been made inoperable.

During the past week:

45 Gazan cancer patients were denied entry into Israel where they were to receive radio therapy

approximately 100 Palestinians in need of kidney dialysis were blocked from reaching hospitals

a Palestinian woman had to give birth in a car while waiting to pass through a check point to reach a hospital

Intimae Mohammad Al-Azraq, age 6; Mohammad Ghazan Al-Loulou, age 9; Qaldil Abu Mazeed, age 12; and Jamal Khelil Shaheen, age 33, all needing eye treatment, were blocked from reaching St. John's Hospital in Jerusalem, the only hospital available to Palestinians for Ophthalmic services

Monna Adel Balousheh was not allowed to leave Gaza to travel to Egypt where she was to receive emergency surgical treatment for brain hemorrhage

Alia Azraq Jaradeh who has a serious neurological condition was not permitted to leave Jericho to join her family in Gaza because she holds a Jericho identification card

The UPMRC has begun an emergency campaign to reach villages under siege. If medical teams continue to be denied the ability to travel freely, our efforts to reach those most in need of immediate medical care: rural communities, the elderly, women and children will be made more difficult. The UPMRC is calling for help. We urge you to provide support and exercise pressure to lift this very serious life threatening and inhumane closure imposed on the Palestinian nation.

For further information please contact Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi: Phone: 972-50-254-218, Fax: 972-2-583-0679, mrs@baraka.org

UPMRC-The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees PO Box 51483, Jerusalem Tel: 972.2.583.4021 Fax: 972.2.583.0679 email: mrs@baraka.org website: http://www.baraka.org/upmrc/ -- End --

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