Repair and re-operate Hala Al Shawa Health Center in Beit Lahia Northern Gaza Strip Israel’s last aggression against the Gaza Strip in May 2021 had devastating effects on Gaza's infrastructure, mainly in the northern governorate, including the damage of health facilities such as Beit Hanoun Hospital, Al Awda Health Centre in Beit Hanoun and Hala Al Shawa Health Centre in Beit Lahia. The partial destruction of the Hala Al Shawa Center led to the suspension of the health services provided to the inhabitants of Biet Lahia.  In response to the urgent need of patients for these services, AWDA, with funding from the OPT-HF, initiated the rental, furnishing, equipping amp operation of an alternative health center near Hala Al Shawa Center where services in general medicine, emergency, SRH, MCH, nutrition amp NCD management were provided, in addition to providing needed medication for patients free of charge, where the beneficiaries of this project reached (20,916) patients, of whom (3,513) from NCD services. At the end of the project, and due to the urgent need of people to access the health services in the absence of restoration amp operation of the Hala Al Shawa Center and based on the social responsibility of AWDA towards our people in Beit Lahia, AWDA has continued to provide the health services with nominal prices after the end of the project until today.

Hence, the idea of this project is to repair and re-operate the Hala Al Shawa Centre by AWDA, to continue providing health services with focus on NCD, nutrition and mental health services these services are a top priority for people in the region and meet the 3rd priority of the 1st allocation for 2022. It is worth noting that the idea of the project was supported by the health cluster amp the MoH, where the MoH expressed its willingness to contribute to the operation of the center by providing part of the NCD medication. It is expected that the No. of the project services’ beneficiaries will reach (7000) beneficiaries between men, women, boys amp girls, including PWDs.

In addition to the aforementioned services that the project will provide, AWDA will contribute to providing general medicine and emergency, SRH and MCH services, in addition to providing the necessary furniture amp medical equipment to operate the center.

The local community will be informed about the project’s activities amp about the AWDA feedback, complaints amp response system to enable them to file complaints in the case of a decline in the quality of services or any manifestation of SEA. 

Responding to the beneficiaries’ gender needs, the staff in the center will be of both sexes, and to protect women amp girls, AWDA’s PSEA protocol will be implemented.

The project services will be provided without any kind of discrimination on the basis of religion, gender, color, or political affiliation, with preserving the dignity amp privacy of the beneficiaries.

In order to achieve the principle of accuracy in documenting the beneficiaries’ information, the HIS in force in AWDA will be applied in order to quickly access information amp extract reports.

In order to ensure the sustainability of the provision of the health services at Hala Al Shawa Center after the end of the project duration, a MoU between the MoH amp AWDA will be signed, in order for AWDA to continue to operate the Hala Al Shawa center amp provide health services at nominal prices to the people, with the possibility of the MoH contributing with some medication according to the availability of its resources.