The Al Quds Foundation SA are set to launch a health training facility at the Al Quds University in Gaza, as one of the many offshoot projects created after the opening of its new branch in Malaysia. The new offices aim to create awareness programmes around the Palestinian struggle and the challenges faced by the city of Al Quds.

According to Sheikh Isgaak Taliep, national executive manager of the Al Quds Foundation of South Africa, the training academy will be a huge boost for the medical fraternity in Gaza, already struggling with under-skilled doctors who are contending with a barrage of chronically ill patients.

Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth, and has been labelled as the worlds ‘largest outdoor prison’. The Israeli siege has led to complete politicization and financial boycotts. Israeli authorities have closed the borders for patients urgently seeking medical care, as well as students and medical staff who hope to leave to gain higher qualifications. Doctors need materials for laboratories, and in the last four years they have lost hundreds of patients, due to lack of medicine and medical facilities.

Darul Ihsan Media Desk