Foreign medical delegations visit Gaza to try to help fragile health sector

Since the end of the recent war that saw Israeli strikes devastate the Gaza Strip, health delegations have been flocking into Gaza in the hopes of helping revive the health sector that already had been ailing due to the coronavirus pandemic.
kidney dialysis in Gaza
Palestinian patients undergo kidney dialysis at Dar al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza City on Sept. 14, 2013. The health situation in the Gaza Strip has been facing difficulties because of the coronavirus pandemic, Israeli restrictions and the devastation Israeli airstrikes caused to the enclave. Once the Israeli-Gaza war ended on May 21, 2021, a Jordanian team came in to perform four kidney transplants in the enclave. - MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images
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Mohammed Rajab is a 27-year-old young man from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip who suffered from kidney failure and required a kidney transplant. He wanted the transplant to be carried out inside the Gaza Strip.

This surgery depended on the arrival of a Jordanian medical delegation that has regularly visited Gaza over the years to perform kidney transplants for patients. But starting in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic repeatedly delayed the arrival of the Jordanian delegation to Gaza.

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