{"id":259877,"date":"2021-10-18T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=259877"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:10:53","slug":"unops-and-pa-ministry-of-health-sign-an-agreement-for-covid-19-crisis-response-emergency-support-funded-by-govenment-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unops-and-pa-ministry-of-health-sign-an-agreement-for-covid-19-crisis-response-emergency-support-funded-by-govenment-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"UNOPS and PA Ministry of Health Sign an Agreement for COVID-19 Crisis Response Emergency Support Funded by Govenment of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ramallah , 14 October 2021 –<\/strong>\u00a0UNOPS and the Ministry of Health signed an Agreement today in Ramallah whereby UNOPS will be implementing the procurement services for \u201cThe Programme for COVID -19 Crisis Response Emergency Support\u201d under the Japanese Grant Assistance funded by the Government of Japan through JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY( JICA) for the benefit of the Ministry.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Health Minister Dr. Mai Al Kaila<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0UNOPS Director of the Jerusalem Office Mr. Tokumitsu KOBAYASHI<\/strong>\u00a0attended the signing ceremony in the Ministry of Health. This project comes as part of a eight million dollar Grant provided by the Government of Japan to the Palestinian Authority under the Exchange of Notes signed June 2021, for the procurement of COVID-19 related equipment, including vehicles with cold insulation function for vaccine transportation.<\/p>\n

This project comes at a critical time and will significantly contribute to the readiness of the Ministry of Health to respond to the COVID-19 crisis through its health facilities in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony,\u00a0H.E. Dr. Mai Al Kaila – Minister of Health<\/strong>\u00a0expressed her deep gratitude to UNOPS for their efforts in completing this vital project, and the continuous support of the Government of Japan. “This project will support the Ministry of Health in procuring COVID-19 related medical supplies including the vehicles for vaccine transportation and other laboratories equipment” she stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased that UNOPS through JICA will be able to provide the medical equipment and to West Bank and Gaza laboratories to enhance their services in response to the current COVID-19 crisis \u201d said\u00a0Tokumitsu Kobayashi, UNOPS Director in the Jerusalem Office.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c UNOPS remains ready to further support Japan in Palestine to fruitfully respond to the urgent needs of the Palestinian healthcare system\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. Rasha Barakat<\/p>\n

UNOPS Jerusalem Operations Centre<\/p>\n

Partnerships Officer<\/p>\n

Mobile: Office: +972 (0)2 628 1881<\/p>\n

E-mail: Rashak@unops.org<\/p>\n

For more information about UNOPS, please visit our website:\u00a0www.unops.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629   Ramallah , 14 October 2021 –\u00a0UNOPS and the Ministry of Health signed an Agreement today in Ramallah whereby UNOPS will be implementing the procurement services for \u201cThe Programme for COVID -19 Crisis Response Emergency Support\u201d under the Japanese Grant Assistance funded by the Government of Japan through JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY( JICA) […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[906],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[3185],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2533],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6544],"class_list":["post-259877","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-japan","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-office-for-project-services-unops","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-health","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/259877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/259877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=259877"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=259877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}