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Palestine Emerging coalition of Palestinian private sector leaders unveils transformative Healthcare Plan for West Bank and Gaza to address 40% of public deficit
As war continues, is a detailed and stress-tested plan for saving the Palestinian healthcare system which is overcome with debt, demand, and division. Led by , delivery of the plan is set to include Anera, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, Gaza WASH Cluster members and a number of Palestinian private sector players from health and adjacent industries and private hospital networks.
The work is informed by a bespoke survey conducted for Palestine Emerging's by Dr Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR). This highlighted the health inequalities between different regions of the West Bank and for women. Palestinians surveyed said they are willing to pay for better quality care, with the detailed results helping underpin plans to roll out more health insurance products, which could inject $633m into the healthcare system.
This is despite nearly half of the Palestinian population being unemployed or working in the informal economy. As one response, the blueprint includes hybrid health-insurance models that could increase collections tenfold to 1 billion ILS by 2030, reducing share of government contributions. Government public health expenditure is currently estimated at 40% of public debt.
is based on aggregated data of health demand, supply and finance evolution and is designed to be delivered by identified counterparties in current conditions, even as the devastation in Gaza and violence in the West Bank continues.
The plans lay out a number of stress-tested catalysts and pilots to accelerate existing transformation efforts that will positively impact Palestine and the region, including:
The full blueprint, as well as references, survey results and accompanying literature and data can be accessed at: https://palestine-emerging.org/
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The 100-strong coalition of Palestinian business leaders and civil society provides an economic blueprint for long-term sustainable growth in the West Bank and Gaza . Their plans build on published sources, updated, reviewed, and combined. The is a detailed and stress-tested plan to create a sustainable Palestinian healthcare system based on nine catalysts to transform the local healthcare landscape. https://palestine-emerging.org/ contains all details of the economic blueprint and healthcare plan, references and the main publications used.
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