In the Gaza Strip, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among females followed by colon cancer, lung cancer and thyroid cancer.٣ In November ٢٠٢١, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMOH) relocated oncology and oncology-related services from the different governmental hospitals in the Gaza Strip to the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in a bid to unify the diagnostic and treatme. [...] The referral procedures begin with the approval of a specialist doctor, who follows-up the patient’s case, and the approval of members of the Medical Committee in the PMOH’s Treatment Abroad Department, which examines the medical reports and make sure that their treatment is not available at the Gaza Strip Hospitals, and ends with other procedures related to submitting applications to obtain an Is. [...] The Occupying Power may requisition civilian hospitals only temporarily and then on condition that suitable arrangements are made in due time for the care and treatment of the patients.٣ ٢ Moreover, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services.٤ ٢ ١٩ ٠٧ Interview with Dr. [...] Moreover, the Occupying Power is under the obligation to allow the free passage of all consignments of medicine and medical material and to the fullest extent of the means available to it has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population,٦ ٢ as well as not prohibiting any action that consists of supplying medicine and medical materials.٧ ٢ ٢. [...] It shall likewise permit the free passage of all consignments of essential foodstuffs, clothing and tonics intended for children under fifteen, expectant mothers and maternity cases.” And Article ٥٥ of the same Convention: “To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, brin.
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