A global appeal to ease restrictions on the entry of Palestinian medical professionals

The medical journal The Lancet on Saturday published an appeal to ease restrictions on Israeli visas for medical professionals wishing to develop health care in Palestine.

The magazine publishes an editorial by a group of British leading medical care professionals, calling on international medical leaders, doctors and academics to join them in demanding that the Israeli authorities ease restrictions on Israeli entry visas to the occupied Palestinian territories.

"There is no doubt that the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on entry visas for Palestinian doctors and specialists living in the diaspora and international academic doctors who wish to travel to Palestine to participate in institutional building and the development of academic medical personnel have a significant negative impact on the development of the Palestinian health sector "He said.

According to the authors of the article, these restrictions have a significant negative impact, especially on the Palestinian medical schools located in areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority "A", which prevents the entry of Israelis, and these constraints constitute a serious obstacle to the development of clinical services and medical education and scientific research. According to a statement issued by the Association "Family Medicine in Palestine", arrived to Al Jazeera Net.

Professor Jean Fadr, a specialist in primary care medicine at Bristol University School of Medicine, Professor Anita Berlin, specialist in primary care culture and the head of mass medical education at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in London and Paris, and Professor Salim Haj Yahya, The University of Glasgow, Professor Anne-Louise Kenmuth, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Professor Paul Wallace, Professor Emeritus of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Nebraska Colleg Lynde N.

The doctors involved in the article are founders and members of the Society for Family Medicine in Palestine, a British charity organization that trains medical staff to develop clinical, academic and family medicine experiences in Palestine at the Faculty of Medicine at An-Najah University since 2012.

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"The Family Medicine Association in Palestine has trained family doctors in the past six years, with the participation of top British experts, and their work has had a significant impact in this area," said Professor Emeritus of Primary Care Medicine at Univercity College London and Executive Director Paul Wallace.

This development is only possible thanks to international academic cooperation and good intentions. It is important that the various political considerations are not an obstacle to this important work, and we hope that our appeal will be heard by our colleagues by joining us and calling on the Israeli authorities to ease the restrictions on entry visas for international academics and doctors from Palestine to Palestine. Israeli authorities.

"We seek union and cooperation among all academic doctors, regardless of their different political orientations, in order to support the development of Palestinian medical schools and the Palestinian health system, and enable them to develop competent medical personnel," said Prof. Vedder. Able to provide advanced health services to the Palestinian people. "