In a joint meeting between Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Yousef Abu al-Rish with a delegation from the UNRWA represented by the Director of the Department of Health Dr. Ghada Al-Jadba, the problem of the long waiting lists of the elective surgeries which have accumulated in the MOH hospitals that were mainly concerned by treating the acutely injured cases of the Great March of Return along the year 2018 was discussed.
A joint project between both parties was launched at the end of 2018 and extends to July 2019, through this project the patients on the waiting lists in the governmental hospitals have started to be referred to health NGOs in the fields of general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, cosmetology, surgery, ophthalmology, surgery, and surgery. The cases are referred to specialized hospitals, notably San John Eye, Al-Awda Hospital in North Governorate, Al-Quds Hospital, Okasha International Eye Center, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.