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  • War and peace: Israeli phys...
    Ash, Shifra; Zuckerman, Tsila; Rowe, Jacob M

    Lancet, 12/2023, Letnik: 402, Številka: 10417
    Journal Article

    To advance this cooperation, in November, 2021, the Rambam Health Care Campus, a tertiary-care, academic, governmental medical centre in Haifa in the north of Israel, launched a mission to bridge the gap between Israeli and Palestinian communities and offer services, including paediatric and adult haemato–oncological services, to Palestinian patients from both Gaza and the West Bank. Severely ill patients were referred to the Rambam Health Care Campus by their local treating physicians for therapeutic modalities that were unavailable in Gaza and the West Bank. 34 paediatric patients (aged 2 months to 13 years) and 84 adults (aged 16–74 years), mainly with life-threatening diseases, such as acute leukaemia and bone marrow failure, received medical care at our institution. 15 paediatric and 48 adult patients underwent the most comprehensive medical treatments, including allogeneic stem-cell transplantation and novel immunotherapies. Apart from medical care, we have taken upon ourselves the task to address a broad array of other needs not otherwise covered for this population, such as food, housing, clothing, and medically necessary health care of their accompanying family members, transportation from checkpoints to the hospital and back, religious services, and free-time activities for the younger patients. ...with the aim of providing autonomy in health care to the highest degree, we provided residency and fellowship-level training to Palestinian physicians in Gaza and the West Bank.