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Health Links


Current health links projects

The health links group is supporting the Camden clinic, an out-of-hours and emergency clinic which is organised on a rota by Abu Dis doctors from different clinics. The clinic now houses an eye clinic (once a month in cooperation with the Eye Hospital, Jerusalem) and holds blood-donation sessions once a week (in co-operation with Al Muqassed Hospital, Jerusalem).

Click here to go to the Camden Clinic page

We raise money for basic medicines, which unfortunately are needed as the Palestinian economy has suffered so badly both from the Wall and from from the sanctions put on by the West since the Palestinian elections in early 2006. We are planning for health workers' visits from Camden to Abu Dis and from Abu Dis to Camden.

We try to make people in Camden aware of the reasons for these problems and recently put a mock Wall outside a London hospital to show how Abu Dis people are cut off from health care (link to pics from the hospital demo)

Click here to go the Past Health Links Project page



Health in Abu Dis

Abu Dis suffers badly from the Wall in every respect but its effect on people's health is dramatic. The hospitals that Abu Dis relies on are in East Jerusalem, and the way to them is now blocked by the Occupation Wall. There is no delivery room for mothers and there was no emergency out-of-hours service until the Camden Clinic opened in 2007.Two small clinics serve a population of roughly 16 or 17 thousand (including the student population at the Al Quds University), and medicine is often in short supply. Doctors have sent us calls for help as the Wall has blocked the way of their patients to hospital and people have been born at and died at checkpoints.

CADFA health links group

Camden Abu Dis Health Links brings together health professionals from across Camden, and works closely with a group of health professionals from Abu Dis who came together in response to CADFA and who welcome our support. If you work in the area of health or if this is your interest, we would be glad to hear from you.