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Mon, 01/26/2009 - 09:07
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INDONESIA PROPOSES ESTABLISHMENT OF GAZA MEDICAL INT'L INITIATIVE

Gaza City, Jan 26 (ANTARA) - In order to make a better coordination in rendering health assistance to thousands of injured Palestinians in Gaza, Indonesian voluntary workers of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) propose the establishment of Gaza Medical International Initiatives (GMII).

The remark was made by two Indonesian voluntary workers, respectively dr Jose Rizal Jurnalist SpOT and dr Sarbini Abdul Murad, bothare members of MER-C Indonesia, Andi Jauhari, Antara journalist joining the voluntary workers to Gaza, said here on Sunday.

The initiatives were discussed with other doctors from
other countries at the As-Shifa hospital on Saturday.

According to Jose Rizal Jurnalis, some countries like Indonesia, Syria, Turkey, Sudan and Algeria had raised this initiative which will be supported by other countries who have sent voluntary workers.

As advance step, the initiative will be represented by some parties of countries sending their voluntary workers and after that, a meeting on this has to be held to crystilize the idea.

"We hope that Indonesia will become the first host to materialize the idea into a reality, so that such concrete action can be taken to provide integrated health services to the Palestinians," he said.

Meanwhile dr Sarbini Abdul Murad said that the agenda on humanity through health would be welcomed by many nations, so that the Gaza Strip which is currently suffering from poor health services and lack of medicines could be helped.

Hopefully, the idea was not only expected by those involved in providing medical assistance, but the governments and the people of countries sending voluntary workers to Gaza would also support it, he said.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, last week demanded a thorough investigation into various impacts of Israeli military strikes on the UN managed schools four times.

During the Israeli military attack, the schools, hospitals, UN complex and thousands of houses were all stricken and the Palestinian government said the total damage of the military aggression may reach more than USD2 billion.

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