Premier Palestinian medical school graduates struggle to work in Jerusalem
- Dettagli
- Categoria: Gerusalemme
- Pubblicato Sabato, 28 Luglio 2012 09:36
- Scritto da Joel Greenberg
The Washington Post, July 16, 2012
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| LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS - With the eight-meter-high cement wall, part of Israel's separation barrier, partially seen outside the Palestinian flag-decorated tent, Palestinian students of the Al-Quds University prepare diplomas for graduates in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on Aug. 1, 2004 |
The doctors in question received their medical degrees from Al-Quds University, a prominent Palestinian institution of higher learning. Although it is the leading Arab university in the Jerusalem metropolitan area, graduates of its medical school are not allowed to take the Israeli licensing exam needed to work in the city.
As a result, a heavily burdened health-care system in the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, where specialists are sorely lacking, is deprived of an infusion of new physicians to help serve a population of about 300,000.