Checking blood pressure at Caritas Jerusalem's Gaza health clinic.

 

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Photo: Katie Orlinsky/Caritas

We support health clinics in the West Bank and Gaza where it can be difficult to get medical attention due to poverty, travel restrictions, and checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Checking blood pressure at Caritas Jerusalem's Gaza health clinic.

Caritas Jerusalem

Health Programme

This programme provides health care to Palestinian Territories in Aboud and Taybeh villages in the West Bank, and in Gaza. Caritas Jerusalem runs a mobile clinic (in Gaza) and have extended health care services to more than 20,000 patients throughout villages and camps in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The services provided include general medicine, gynaecology, paediatrics, dental care, orthopaedics, urology, ophthalmology, dermatology, and laboratory and x-ray services among others.

Read more about Caritas Jersusalem

Read our One World Partnership newsletter on Caritas Jerusalem's health care work.

Caritas Jerusalem director Claudette Habesch visited New Zealand for Lent 2012. Read more about her here.

Caritas Jerusalem's health centres.

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand supports Caritas Jerusalem to bring relief to Gaza.

'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem'

The Peace Lamp project aims to raise awareness and pray for peace in the Holy Land. Read about it here.

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