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BACKGROUND
Palestine one of the longest conflicts in the world. DWW organized psychological trauma
course in Ramallah in November 2002 after Israeli incursion. DWW also sent
relief teams after the 2006 war.
DWW main aim is to improve the capacity building of health personnel and equip
the hospitals.
PROJECTS
Rehabilitation of Khan Younis hospital A&E Department.
During the crisis in Gaza in 2006, a four man medical team brought back details of the poor
situation facing patients requiring emergency medical care. With only two
functioning emergency departments, one in Rafah and one in Khan Younis and with
neither having adequate facilities or adequately trained staff, emergency and
other patients face a long, dangerous and expensive journey to Jordan.
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DWW has also begun looking for partners and donations to help upgrade the
facilities at Khan Younis hospital, it requires a new anaesthetic and x-ray
machine as well as a CT scanner. With this improved equipment many more
laparotomies and much more emergency work can be carried out without the need
for unnecessary and dangerous transfers outside of Palestine
.Funding has been found and DWW is trying to send the equipment to
Gaza. DWW will then commit to training and managing staff to
make the most use out of the diagnostic improvements. DWW will also send
volunteer staff to help training and development.
This project has been completed by DWW-Turkey. CT scan and other equipment have
been set up in May-2007.
Trauma Resuscitation course:
DWW has undertaken to train 5-6 key workers in Gaza to the level of becoming trauma trainers, they will be given this training at an
internationally renowned centre in Istanbul, following which local training courses for further staff can be run by them on
their return.
6 Palestinian doctors have been trained in Istanbul and returned in May 2007.
Sending surgical teams:
DWW sent surgical teams from
Turkey
to operate difficult cases. There have been 4 teams sent in 2007 and 2008 and
they operated hundreds of cleft and other plastic surgery cases as well as brain
surgery, child urology and ENT cases.
Psychological trauma course:
DWW organized psychological trauma course in Ramallah and
Gaza in November 2002 after Israeli incursion.
DWW is also planning another course in Gaza and
Hebron in near future.
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