by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The official PA daily reported on a visit by the PA Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen, to Israel's Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The daily noted that 30% of the child patients in Hadassah are Palestinians and that the Israeli hospital is training "60 Palestinian medical interns and specialist physicians who will be returning to the [Palestinian] Authority areas to carry out their work." The hospital has a special program to train Palestinian doctors to treat cancer among children, reported the PA daily.
The following is the report:
"[PA]
Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen visited the [Israeli] Hadassah Hospital
yesterday [May 5, 2013]. This is the first visit by a Palestinian
minister to one of the most important Israeli hospitals, according to
the hospital's announcement.
Minister
Abdeen who was accompanied by a delegation that included senior
officials of the ministry and of the PA, met with the Director of Ein
Karem Hadassah Hospital, Yuval Weiss. He [the minister] visited
Palestinian patients being treated in the hospital, and he distributed
gifts. [Hospital director] Weiss said: 'We relate to patients without
regard to nationality and religion. We treat Muslims, Christians, Jews,
and other nationalities without bias, and 30% of the patients who are
children are Palestinians.'
He
went on to say: 'We've begun cooperating with the Palestinians. We now
train teams of physicians from the hospital in Beit Jala in the southern
West Bank, to treat cancer among children. We have about 60 Palestinian
medical interns and specialist physicians who will be returning to the
[Palestinian] Authority areas to carry out their work.'"
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 6, 2013]
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Source: http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9049
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