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2017 Winter Edition 2017 Winter Edition The Newsletter of St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group - The only charitable provider of expert eye care in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem; treating patients regardless of religion, ethnicity, or ability to pay GAZA Photograph: Fadi Thabet APPEAL2017 The medical crisis The Archbishop of facing Gaza - and what Canterbury visits our St John is doing to help hospital - and other (Pages 2-6) news from 2017 (Page 7) Join in the festive fun at the St John Gift of Sight Fair 2017 “Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian emergency, but when bombs are not falling, the international community pays little attention.” Aimee Shalan, CEO of our partner MAP Help the most vulnerable in the Holy Land this Christmas by supporting our Gaza Appeal Page 1 Winter 2017 GAZA APPEAL 2017 The challenges facing the Gazan healthcare system In a year which marks Recent politics have one decade since the also directly affected Israeli blockade of the healthcare system the Gaza Strip began, throughout June and July Palestinian political of this year. In order to unrest has resulted put pressure on Hamas in further issues for the Palestinian Authority our most vulnerable had limited referrals of patients. the majority of medical ELECTRICITY RESULT: OUR patients for treatment in SHORTAGES GAZA HOSPITAL Gaza is currently Jerusalem. This means 18-20 HOURS IS RUNNING ON facing its worst ever for St John the cost PER DAY EMERGENCY energy crisis resulting of their treatment fell GENERATOR in extreme electricity to our limited Patient 24/7 shortages. This has Relief Fund to ensure all caused sewage to wash received the treatment up on Gazan beaches they needed. and undrinkable water to pour from taps (as St John is even the most basic focussing on water treatment plants can no longer function). increasing our It also means our Gaza ability to deliver Hospital is functioning treatment within 50% OF PERMITS RESULT: solely on its emergency the Gaza Strip to TO ACCESS PATIENTS CANNOT generator, at great cost. MEDICAL TRAVEL TO ensure patients TREATMENT JERUSALEM FOR The hundreds of will receive DELAYED OR SIGHT-SAVING patients who travel from the treatment DENIED TREATMENT Gaza to our Jerusalem they need Hospital for treatment each year are those regardless of the with the most complex political climate eye conditions, many of surrounding them. which cause debilitating vision loss. We are proud to say it has been a This is challenging PALESTINIAN RESULT: as over 50% patients year of remarkable AUTHORITY PAYMENT or their companions growth in our LIMITED FOR THESE are delayed or denied most challenged PATIENT TREATMENTS permits to travel for hospital. REFERRALS FELL TO SJEHG healthcare by the Israeli TO COVER THE authorities (WHO, COSTS June 2017). Page 2 Winter 2017 New medical conditions covered within Gaza days. An exhausting, but A tired surgical team pose for a selfie after performing a record 20 cornea transplant surgeries in three days at our Gaza Hospital, July 2017. rewarding feat! 2017 has also seen our first vitreoretinal 500 treatments in Gaza MAJOR SURGERIES begin as our new expert DELIVERED WITHIN on the condition Dr GAZA JAN-JULY 2017 Mahmoud Ghonim got NEW CONDITIONS his hands on our state- COVERED: of-the-art equipment this year. This wonderful combination has resulted in no vitreoretinal patients left on our referral list for Jerusalem. Finally, Dr Al Walid NORMAL EYE has returned from his fellowship in India to OUR MISSION TO INCREASE treat Glaucoma. This is ST JOHN’S ABILITY TO PROVIDE a horrendous condition EYE CARE FROM WITHIN GAZA which can cause often irreversible damage if not treated in time. It is We have delivered operation is hard to suffered by children in GLAUCOMA almost 500 major achieve as it involves the region who would the transportation of often be separated operations from donated corneas (often from their parents when within the Strip from the US), then travelling to Jerusalem in the first half through the Israeli and for surgery (as they of 2017, almost Palestinian Authority would not be given borders into Gaza, permission to travel double the amount as well as organising together) – now they compared to the permits for our can hold their mother’s year previous. Jerusalem medical staff hand whilst awaiting KERATOCONUS to travel to Gaza. As a their daunting surgery. This included 40 major result our team perform corneal transplants many operations during – the first surgery of their short visits. Dr its kind performed in Abu Hantash travelled our Gaza Hospital. twice to Gaza to The logistics of this perform two sets of 20 surgeries in three alone is a triumph - the RETINOPATHY Page 3 Winter 2017 GAZA APPEAL 2017 Recruiting for the Future This year we completed under our experts in training of fifteen Jerusalem. We are nursing assistants in offering full training for Gaza, some of whom Cornea, Oculoplastic work in our hospital and Paediatric sub- and others who are specialties. By next delivering care in all year we should be able corners of the Strip. to proudly add these conditions to the list Three new medical of those treatments residents have also available within the been recruited to train Gaza Strip. 10 Mobile Outreach in Gaza Hope On Wheels - Centres visited so far: 1. Palestinian Medical JABALIA Relief Society 5 1 - Jabalia 2. Ard Alinsan - Gaza City 4 2 GAZA CITY 6 3 DEIR AL BALAH 7 4. Women Graduates Association Gaza Children pose whilst waiting for their eye check up at a Mobile Outreach 5. UN Women Clinic in the Gaza Strip, September 2017. Photograph: Fadi Thabet Program( Beach ) 8 6. Tawasel Association Finally 2017 is the sees over 18,500 7. Afaq Association 9 year we are delighted isolated and KHAN 8. Palestinian Medical to launch our Mobile vulnerable YUNIS Relief Society Outreach Programme in patients each 9. Ard Alinsan - Khan Yunis the Gaza Strip. year. Its launch 10. Palestinian Medical 11 in Gaza will allow Relief Society Beit Lahia Our Mobile Outreach us to reach our 11. Palestinian Medical RAFAH Programme launched in most marginalised Relief Society Rafah the West Bank in 1980 patients in Bedouin 12. Palestinian Red and is an absolutely communities and Crescent Centres vital service which now refugee camps. Page 4 Winter 2017 Wish list Why we need your support: Lena 1. Patient Relief Fund times to Jerusalem for £Any amount surgery and check-ups Support the most to treat her debilitating vulnerable in Gaza condition. by funding their vital treatment. As her mother and father are denied 2. permission to travel with Cornea Transplants her for these frightening surgeries it falls to her £1,700 each elderly grandmother We plan 100 of these of to accompany Lena. these operations in 2018. Two-year-old Lena holds hands with nurse Ahmed Amer, as she prepares However our Jerusalem for her 6th Glaucoma surgery at St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. 3. staff do everything they can to make Lena feel Tonometers Two-year old been caught earlier, safe and at ease prior to £2,500 each Lena is from an and it is likely that her surgeries. We need three more Lena will struggle with isolated Bedouin digital tonometers her education and St John launched its to fight Glaucoma community in employment as she has first Mobile Outreach in in Gaza. the Gaza Strip. very limited vision. Gaza this year, providing education and screening 4. Due to lack of eye care Although Lena has little services across the Slit Lamps services her glaucoma chance to see well again troubled region. was overlooked as St John Eye Hospital is Under the programme £23,000 'beautiful big eyes', doing everything in its glaucoma cases like each leaving her almost blind. power to save the little Lena’s will be caught We urgently need three sight she has left. and treated earlier, Slit Lamps in Gaza, used An ideal situation saving the sight of many for most medical would have been for In her short life, Lena where Lena was less diagnoses. the condition to have has had to travel six fortunate. Help the most vulnerable this Christmas Give the Gift The more we develop This Christmas we our office, going of Sight to the our services in Gaza, ask you to support online (https://www. people of Gaza the less our Gazan our mission to stjohneyehospital. this Christmas by patient’s eyesight will end preventable org/support-us) or by be at the whim of the blindness in Gaza. returning the donation supporting our tumultuous political Donate to our Gaza form at the back of Gaza Appeal. situation in the region. Appeal by contacting Jerusalem Scene. Page 5 Winter 2017 News Flash 2017 1. Archbishop Visit We were delighted to welcome The The Archbishop of Canterbury meeting our Gaza Hospital Staff, accompanied by Nursing Director Ahmad Ma'ali, our Chairman Archbishop of Nicholas Woolf, previous Consul-General for Britain to Jerusalem Dr Alastair McPhail and trustee Dr Maged Abu Ramadan. Canterbury, Justin Welby, during his On the visit, our 2. St John Ophthalmic treasure that has been trip to the Holy Land Chairman, Nicholas Association recently restored to where he visited a Woolf, commented that: In April, the St John welcome all our guests number of Palestinian “The motto of The Most Ophthalmic Association and curious visitors - our communities, expressing Venerable Order of The (SOA) held its first new Muristan Peace his “profound grief and Hospital of St John of scientific congress Garden. Upon arrival sorrow” after hearing Jerusalem is 'For the in Jerusalem, with you feel a great sense the testimonies of Faith: In the Service of a guest list of 60 of tranquillity, like time Palestinians living Humanity (Pro Fide, ophthalmologists itself has stopped.
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