According to the annual performance report of the Primary Health Care (PHC) in MOH-Gaza, 2 million patients frequent to PHC centers in the Gaza Strip during 2019.
Dr. Medhat Abbas, General – Director of PHC at MoH stressed the importance of the services provided by the PHC centers, which is considered one of the most important pillars of the health system.
Dr. Abbas stated that the number of patients who frequent patients to the general medical clinics in PHC centers exceeded one million and 400 thousand patients during 2019, while the number of frequent patients to the specialized clinics reached 685 thousand patients.
As for the nursing services, he indicated that the number of frequent amounted to one million visitors, while the number of visits to chronic disease clinics reached 152 thousand patients.