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Indonesian Red Cross provides door-to-door service for Palestinian refugees
The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has collaborated with the Medical Aid Society in the Gaza Strip to open a door-to-door mobile medical service to serve a minimum of 1,000 Gazan refugees.
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Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) volunteers provide medical service to Palestinian refugees in the border town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 11, 2024. The PMI aims to provide medical services to 1,000 refugees in Rafah and Khan Younis. (Antara/Courtesy of the Indonesian Red Cross)
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he Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has opened a door-to-door mobile medical service in collaboration with the Medical Aid Society in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, aiming to serve 1,000 Gazan refugees.
Head of the PMI humanitarian team in Gaza, Arifin Muh Hadi, said his team provided a door-to-door service to ease the refugees' access to health care, as many of them could not get to emergency medical facilities.
"This mobile medical service program is very effective considering the number of operating hospitals is decreasing. Additionally, the patient capacity in existing hospitals is also minimal," he said on Sunday, as quoted by Antara news agency.
Arifin, who is in the border town of Rafah, said that the team would continue the medical service and target several other emergency shelters after the 1,000-patient target had been reached.
Head of the PMI disaster response division Ridwan Sobri Carman said that to provide medical services, volunteers were divided into two teams consisting of a doctor and two nurses. The dispatched teams operated in Rafah and Khan Younis.
PMI's door-to-door medical assistance was aligned with the World Health Organization’s emphasis on increasing routine immunization coverage and the provision of non-infectious disease drugs, psychotropic drugs and anesthetics to meet public health needs and prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
A significant amount of Gaza’s infrastructure, including local hospitals, has been completely destroyed since the beginning of Israel’s invasion.
