The Houston Post · 16 January 1994

CP-1994-021

Medicine in Gaza lags behind Israel

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Medicine in Gaza lags behind Israel Palestinians push for money, modernization REUTER NEWS SERVICE GAZA, Occupied Territories - To page a doctor at Gaza's al- Hospital, staff members Ahli must rush to a square outside their offices to ring a church bell as old as the 1917 building.

Electronic pagers, only some of the trappings of modern medi- the Gaza cal care missing In Strip, are banned by Israel for security reasons, doctors say. "When we want to page a doc- tor, we ring one bell, for a clean- X-ray, three er, two, and for bells," said Anis Abu Hashem, staff nurse at the private al-Ahli facility.

Palestinian physicians, drained by six years of casualties from the uprising against Israel, hope the ailing health-care sys- tem will desperately needed infusion of money, medi- cine and modernization when self-rule is born. Palestinian self-rule Limited was to have begun in the Gaza Strip a

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"Medicine in Gaza lags behind Israel," The Houston Post, 16 January 1994. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1994-021. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1994-021

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