Gaza Strip: Coronavirus

(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2020 to Question 57229 on Gaza, what recent assessment his Department has made of the capacity of the health system in Gaza to cope with the rapid increase in covid-19 cases.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

The UK remains concerned about the capacity of an already fragile health system in Gaza. We have provided £1.25 million funding (WHO with £630,000 and UNICEF with £620,000) to purchase and co-ordinate delivery of medical equipment, treat critical care patients, train frontline health workers and scale up laboratory testing capacity – mainly in Gaza. This funding helped to provide over 20,000 testing kits, 59,500 PPE items for around 4,900 health workers.

The British Consulate General also supported the delivery of 24 respirators to the Palestinian Ministry of Health for several hospitals across the West Bank and Gaza to help provide support for critical cases.

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