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A Scottish charity is to install three paediatric operating theatres in the West Bank<\/a> to help hospitals meet demand for children\u2019s surgery \u201cfor many years to come\u201d.<\/p>\n Kids Operating Room has committed to establishing theatres in Bethlehem<\/a>, Hebron<\/a> and Jericho<\/a> in existing hospitals.<\/p>\n Medics in the Palestinian territory say the current hospital infrastructure is struggling to cope with a rising need for paediatric surgery.<\/p>\n The charity uses a hub in Dundee to\u00a0assemble medical equipment for paediatric facilities in countries experiencing humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n It recently installed six theatres in Ukraine which can be powered by solar energy, meaning they can continue working during blackouts.<\/p>\n The first theatre in the West Bank will be built at Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron.<\/p>\n Kids Operating Room is launching an appeal to raise \u00a3320,000 to help fund the facility.<\/p>\n Staff have already visited the site to assess how the new theatre will function.<\/p>\n David Cunningham, chief executive of Kids Operating Room, said: \u201cSafe surgery is not a temporary requirement, it is a permanent part of a functioning health system.<\/p>\n \u201cChildren across the West Bank face significant barriers to accessing safe surgery and these operating rooms are designed to international clinical standards and built to serve communities for decades.<\/p>\n \u201cThese facilities represent a permanent step forward for children\u2019s healthcare across the West Bank.<\/p>\n \u201cThese theatres will change that, giving hospitals the specialist infrastructure they need to treat children safely, close to home.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Yousef Takrouri, general director of Al-Ahli Hospital, said: \u201cOver the past few years, the demand for children\u2019s surgery in the West Bank has grown far beyond what our hospital can manage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have skilled staff and committed teams, but we simply do not have enough dedicated space to treat children safely.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a result, too many children are waiting in pain for operations that could and should be done much sooner.<\/p>\n \u201cThis project with Kids Operating Room will give us the facilities we need to care for children properly \u2013 not just now, but for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-127055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}