GREATER EFFORTS, RESOURCES NEEDED TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES – UN REPORT

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GREATER EFFORTS, RESOURCES NEEDED TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF PALESTINIAN
REFUGEES – UN REPORTNew York, May 21 2013 1:00PMHealth programmes
carried out by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting
Palestinian refugees has helped to improve their lives, but greater
efforts and more resources are needed to effectively tackle health
challenges, particularly during times of conflict, says a new report.

"There is no doubt we still have considerable ways to go to realize
our ultimate Human Development Goal, 'A Long and Healthy Life,'"
stated Filippo Grandi, Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

"Nonetheless, we are moving in the right direction and incremental
gains are accruing despite the difficult environments UNRWA operates
in," he added in a news release on the Health Department 2012 Annual
Report.

Launched today in Geneva during the 66th World Health Assembly – the
policy-making body of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) – the
report reflects on the operational challenges UNRWA has faced with
rolling out ongoing health reforms and managing regular services
during times of conflict.

"When reading the Health Department's 2012 annual report, it will
become apparent that managing the 21st century disease burden is
challenging, to say the least, especially in a region su?ering from
protracted con?icts, including the long unresolved Palestinian-Israeli
con?ict, as well as severe economic di?culties, and high rates of
poverty and unemployment," Mr. Grandi writes in the report, along with
Dr. Ala Alwan, the Regional Director for WHO.

They add that, in a pattern evident throughout the developing world,
the Middle East is also undergoing demographic and epidemiological
transitions, whereby the burden of disease is changing from
communicable to life-style related non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

"The change is attributed to a range of factors such as rapid
urbanization, reduced physical activity, change in diet, and increased
life expectancy," they note. "Compounding these is the increase in key
lifestyle risk factors such as smoking and obesity. UNRWA estimates
that 70 per cent of Palestine refugee deaths are caused by NCDs,
particularly diabetes and hypertension."

The report also documents the results of the hard work of UNRWA health
staff, including in conflict-affected Syria, where the violence has
forced the Agency to halt its efforts to roll out its health reforms.

UNRWA has 23 health centres in Syria, providing care for 525,000
Palestine refugees. Almost half of the health centres are closed, and
access to life-saving medicines, particularly for non-communicable
diseases (NCDs), is not fully secured.

"It is a very difficult time for us, yet we are committed to deliver
health services to Palestine refugees," said Akihiro Seita, the
director of UNRWA's Health Programme. "While we have some clinic
closures, we have responded to changing needs by setting up six extra
health posts where there are the greatest numbers of internally
displaced Palestine refugees. We have been sending medicines via
Lebanon.

"The efforts and dedication of UNRWA staff in Syria are truly
commendable. We need continued international support to provide health
care for Palestine refugees in Syria," Dr. Seita added.

In late 2011, UNRWA introduced reforms, including the Family Health
Team (FHT) model, to address the growing disease burden, and provide
patients with optimal care essential to treating NCDs.

The FHT approach aims to improve the quality and efficiency of health
service delivery by providing comprehensive and holistic primary
health care for the entire family, and by emphasizing long-term
provider-patient and family relationships. Data in the report shows
that continuity of care, patients' compliance, and health outputs have
already improved.

Through the Agency's network of 139 primary health centres and mobile
clinics, refugees can access free services ranging from preventive
care to general medicine, specialist care, and referrals to other
medical services.

UNRWA has been the main provider of primary health care for up to five
million Palestinian refugees in the region for over 60 years. Over the
past decades, in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, UNRWA
has succeeded in reducing infant and maternal mortality and the spread
of communicable diseases through its different health programmes.

In addition to health care, the Agency's services encompass education,
relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, and
microfinance.May 21 2013 1:00PM
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