The World Health Organization is working with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to combat the outbreak of the krona virus in the occupied Palestinian territories and Palestinian camps in the homeland and diaspora.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that it was following up with the World Health Organization and the Agency, exacerbating and spreading the virus, and working at all levels and with all institutions, especially the executive bodies, in order to limit the spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, Sami Mushasha, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), stressed that the agency is by virtue of high coordination with host countries, especially the Palestinian National Authority, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank region, including occupied Jerusalem, and is coordinating highly, in terms of preventive and curative measures And service and relief, in everything related to the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
Mushashaa explained that without coordination, the agency will not be able to take a step, and therefore what happened in Jordan that the agency put all its capabilities and capabilities at the disposal of the Jordanian government, which will apply to the rest of our areas of operations, specifically in the occupied Palestinian territories, stressing that the resources available to the Authority and the agency are very scarce, Thus, there should be high coordination, with the Ministry of Health or the Department of Refugee Affairs, the Office of the Presidency and the Office of the Prime Minister. "
He stated that with the outbreak of the Corona virus, the agency was living in a severe financial crisis, pointing out that it had received only a small amount of one billion and 400 million dollars that the agency needed to provide its services, and therefore there is a very large deficit.
“To face the Corona crisis, we asked for $ 14 million for the next three months, and we only got a very small amount, and therefore the agency’s conditions are difficult. There are great challenges, the most important of which is paying salaries to 30,000 employees working for the agency,” Mushasha said.
