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Your Zakat and Sadaqah can save lives!
Your support will ensure that babies as young as 1 day old and children up to the age of 16 years old will receive essential treatment including open heart surgery, treatment for congenital heart defects and cardiac diseases, diagnostic services, provision of echocardiogram services and outpatients treatment. Children who will receive treatment will be:
- 60% from Gaza
- 30% from the West Bank
- 10% from Jerusalem
About Al Makassed.
Al Makassed Islamic Charitable Hospital Society is the largest Arab hospital in East Jerusalem, with 250 beds, and 80 ICU beds including 16 paediatric beds. It is considered the primary referral hospital for the Palestinian Ministry of Health for tertiary care services, including paediatric critical and surgical care. The Paediatrics Open Heart Surgery Department was establishment in 2003. It began with 4 beds and was expanded to become a 16-bed department that includes CCU and ICU. The department is a main referral center serving Palestinian paediatrics from Gaza and the West Bank.