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 The UPMRC was founded with the vision to promote Primary Health Care in Palestine and achieve Quality Health for All. Our Community Health Centers remain important community-level structures from which we conduct our outreach and community activities. Every program currently operated by UPMRC is an outgrowth of our Primary Health Care activities. We offer high-quality services at affordable prices for men, women and children of all ages, and in the year 2000, we served a total of 184,262 people with general clinic services.UPMRC runs 25 permanent Community Health Centers in the West Bank and Gaza, in areas where existing health services are insufficient to meet t he needs of the community. A large proportion of the centers are located in rural, isolated communities to serve the most marginalized people in Palestinian society. The centers are staffed by residents of the communities in which they are located, and the services provided focus on preventive, promotive, as well as curative care, with Community Health Workers, physicians, laboratory technicians, and specialists all contributing to the UPMRC's core, holistic approach to health and well-being. In serving the communities, these health professionals rely both on the internal services of the clinic and on the use of different community activities including home visits. Primary Health Care Programs: Along with the general practice services, special attention is given to women's and children's health by providing ante- and post-natal care, as well as well-baby clinics. Nine centers offer a childhood vaccination program, and childhood development is carefully monitored at all of our centers. Other components of our comprehensive Primary Health Care approach also include the Chronic Diseases Program and specialized services, such as dermatology, dental and eye care. While these programs are treated as separate entities, they are part-and-parcel and essential component of the overall Primary Health Care services provided in the centers. UPMRC also runs mobile clinics from its Community Health Centers in order to ensure that quality care is available even in areas isolated by closures or curfews. Grassroots and Community Activities:  The Community Health Centers also serve as effective springboards for UPMRC's grassroots and community outreach activities such as home visits, school health, health education, screening campaigns, chronic diseases program activities, environmental health activities, health fairs, and youth activities. Through the combination of clinical services and community activities, UPMRC's primary health care centers have become modern health structures that provide a variety of low-cost, high-quality health services to populations in need.Partners: Our clinic staff also cooperate with various partners to avoid gaps and duplication in health service provision. In 2000 we signed two new subcontracts with the Ministry of Health, bringing the total of subcontracted clinics to seven. UPMRC's government sub-contracted clinic are clinics in which we have a special agreement with the Ministry of Health, whereby government insured patients can utilize services at the specific UPMRC clinic, and the National Health Insurance covers the cost of services provided. The government and UPMRC have signed mutually beneficial agreements that ultimately give a maximum amount of people access to quality health care. At these clinics, UPMRC staff are able to treat government insured people, as well as uninsured people who are regular UPMRC patients. |
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