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URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/health-crisis-occupied-gaza/
SUMMARY:Health Crisis: Occupied Gaza
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 \nLiverpool links with Gaza\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\
 n&nbsp\;\n\nAbdul Hammad\n\nConsultant Surgeon at Royal Liverpool Hospital
 \,performed 1st kidney transplant in Gaza Jan 2013\n\n \n\nNorma Turner\n
 \nretired nurse\, Manchestcr Palestine Solidarity Campaign\, in Gaza with 
 women ealthworkers 2013 and 2010.\n\n \n\nChairs: Colin McKean retired GP
 \, chair Liverpool Friends of Palestine\, and\n\nKitty Worthing medical st
 udent (3rd yr) cochair Liverpool University Friends of Palestine\n\n \n\n
 Abdul Hammad\, a Palestinian consultant surgeon at the Royal Liverpool hos
 pital\, led the team performing  Gaza’s first ever kidney transplant in
  Jan 2013. With 250 patients on dialysis\, Gaza needs 70 transplants a yea
 r. Hammad has done 5 transplants\, and hopes to bring a surgeon\, nurses a
 nd specialists to train at the Royal\, to set up a transplant programme at
  Al Shifa\n\nHospital in Gaza City. Gaza is under siege by land\, sea &amp
 \; air\, an illegal collective punishment\n\nof 1.75 million people cramme
 d into 365 km2. “There is a power cut 8 hours a day. During one\n\nof th
 e transplants there was probably 10 secs without power. Imagine this as a 
 daily life for\n\nevery patient.”\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nIsrael’s military bloc
 kade and the renewed closure of the Egyptian border leaves Gaza with\n\npo
 verty\, food insecurity and disease\, restricted supplies of medicines\, f
 uel\, power\, building\n\nmaterials... Gaza relies  on international aid.
  But  healthworkers are organising networks of\n\ncommunity support.
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