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UNRWA Health UNRWA Health ProgrammeProgramme Delivering Health Services Against All OddsDelivering Health Services Against All Odds
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Background
UNRWA has
A specific mandate to provide comprehensive primary health care services to Palestine refugees.
UNRWA is committed to:
Fulfillment of MDGs and Child Rights Convention;
Cost‐effective, evidence‐based health care; and
Partnership with Host countries and other stakeholders including refugees.
A LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE
It is protecting their right to education, health
and social security and enabling them to live
their lives in the fullest, healthiest and most
productive possible way.
Until a political
solution is found,
UNRWA is one of the
few hopes for
Palestine refugees.
Health Programme then and now
When UNRWA began operations in 1950, its beneficiaries were in extremely poor health conditions. Overcrowding and low hygiene favoured the transmission of air and water‐borne infections.
Innovative and Lasting Solutions:
Najjar salts in 1960 (ORS)
Malaria eradication 1960’s
High levels of immunization
Improvement of the environment in refugee camps
First in region to introduce preconception care and advanced growth monitoring for children
UNRWA Health Programme
UNRWA provides comprehensive primary health services to 4.7 million Palestine refugees through:
137 primary health care facilities inside and outside camps, serviced by 4,644 health care workers, including 449 doctors who conducted 10.4 million medical consultations (2009).
One hospital with 63 beds in Qalquilia West Bank
Partially subsidized access to secondary and tertiary care and
Environmental health services in the camps.
UNRWA Health Programme
It provides a comprehensive and integratedhealth package to refugees over their whole life cycle
Program output in 2009
antenatal care, for 104,000 women and post‐natal care to 87,578
more than 2000 women screened for breast cancer
134,000 family planning clients
282,259 children under 3 years of age monitored for growth and development and screening and treatment of anaemia
Providing school health services to 500,000 student
deworming program for 150,000 student
more than 10 million medical consultations ;
More than 4.5 million laboratory tests
14,329 patients were provided physiotherapy and rehabilitation
More than 103,00 patients benefited from UNRWA radiology services
80,820 patients treated in hospitals
Management of 188,000 patients with either or DM and hypertension :
more than 500,000 individual were targeted by the community mental health
724,320 dental consultations and dental screening for more than 290,000 children and pregnant women
Supplementary feeding was provided for more than 85,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers
Administration of 1 million doses of vitamin A supplements.
Regular iron supplements to more than 104,000 pregnant women and 240,000 children
Estimated infant mortality rates (IMR) in refugee camps, Gaza Strip
22
127
160
223332
8992
65
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
1950 1960 1975 1980 1982 1992 1997 2003 2008
Year
IMR
per
100
0 liv
e bi
rths
Now – Health Indicators
Infant mortality rate 22/1000
Maternal mortality 31/100,000
Total fertility rate 3.2
Prevalence of anaemia
among
pregnant women26%
Prevalence of anaemia
among
children below 3 years33.8%
Percentage of women who paid 4
or more antenatal visits89%
Immunization coverage > 95%
Trends of home & institutionalized deliveries
39.2
28.2
99.297.897.696.794.989.2
8072.4
62
51.1
71.8
3827.6
20
0.82.22.43.310.8
5.1
60.8
48.9
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2001 2003 2004 2009Year
Perc
enta
ge
Institutionalized deliveries Home deliveries
Trends in utilization of curative medical services and total health budget
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2009
Medical consultations in millions budget in 20 millions USD
WHO Mission Report -
2005
Excellent Achievements
An extraordinarily effective and responsive programme
High value for money
WHO recommends a minimum of $40 per capita UNRWA spends less than $20 per capita
The cost‐effectiveness is already exemplary
Where would Palestine refugees be without UNRWA health?
Additional resources have to be found to bridge the gap ‐failure to do so will be reflected in greater sickness and death
Challenges
Deliver health services to most vulnerable segment of the population
Growing number of beneficiaries
Socio‐economic hardships
Unemployment
Increasing pool of elderly people and growing burden of NCDs
Emergencies on top of protracted vulnerability
Health reform
In light of chronic disparities between refugee needs and available
financial resources, the Health Programme underwent a
programmatic shift as part of a major health reform that aims
to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the program,
focusing on:
Primary health system: To transform health services into a comprehensive, horizontal, population‐focused PHC;
Hospital care: to obtain –but not provide—the best possible hospital care at a cost affordable for most beneficiaries;
Health system: to update structure and procedures to the new needs; and
Health sector coordination: to become an active actor in all venues where the health of Palestine refugees is discussed.
HEALTH REFORM: ONE WORD FOR MANY AGENDAS...
Beneficiaries:• No waiting•
All drugs we
want•
Full hospital
care
Agency: All stakeholders are
satisfied
Donors:Costs are
contained
Health Programme:HS:• Sustainable• Equitable• Appropriate to needs• Of sufficient quality• Effective &Efficient
Host countries:Rights are
untouched
…BUT ONLY ONE DIRECTION
Work in effective
partnership with other with
other service providers (from
provider to buyer)
Focus on neglected
services
(shift towards
preventive
care)
Protect the most
vulnerable refugees
(safety
net)
PHC
Focus
Quality
over quantity
(do less but better )
Decentralizing
authority
and
control
over
resources
Cost
containment
CONCLUSION
Against all odds UNRWA is continuing to assist Palestine Refugees to buffer the effects in spite of health inequalities and socio‐economic hardship.
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