The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced a national emergency on March 2 to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 which has infected almost 90,000 people across the world.
Today, Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced a national emergency in all governorates of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to confront the Coronavirus "Covid 19".
A press conference held in Gaza with the participation of a delegation from the Ministry of Health in Ramallah, who arrived in the Strip two days ago, to check developments in combating the pervasive virus in a number of countries in the world, and led to the death and injury of thousands.
The press conference was held in the primary care hall of the Sand Clinic in Gaza City, AT 10:30 GMT.. Speaking at the press conference, Akram Al-Shakhra, Director-General of Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health , said
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All the measures that you are currently taking are still precautionary measures, as no infection or suspected case of Coronavirus or Covid 19, known as Corona, has been registered in Palestine.
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Medical teams in the Ministry of Health have conducted more than 200 medical examinations of suspected HIV cases in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, There, I found one case from the Gaza Strip. All results were negative. There were no cases of corona’s disease in cases where samples were examined.
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The Ministry has activated the role of medical and health personnel trained for rapid response, and has cooperated with the World Health Organization to conduct training and revitalization workshops for hospital doctors ’staff. In the Directorate of Health and the infection control and crews to put them in the latest developments, the developments of this epidemic and the mechanism for dealing with it, In addition to the ministry conducting training for ambulance drivers for the Palestinian Red Crescent and the private sector on the mechanisms and methods of transporting suspects who were infected with Coronavirus.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health has declared a national emergency to deal with the virus, and the ministry has worked in accordance with the national strategy to work with two emergency systems in the case of infectious diseases in addition to coordination with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the UNRWA and all institutions and ministries all according to its specialization and responsibility to work to confront this epidemic.
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The Ministry of Health has set up a mechanism to deal with arrivals from the ten countries that have Coronavirus in it, according to WHO updates. The ten countries that are meant to be the most pandemic and the most prevalent in these countries, in the case of the arrival of one of those coming from these countries, the sample will be taken and examined, where it remains in quarantine for the time the sample appeared, while it was negative, it will be moved to the quarantine and if it is positive. There is no positive situation, any carrier of the disease is carried out on a stone for the academic hospital and will be here soon, God willing, through the coming days, a private hospital with HIV.
