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Palestinian health care 'ailing'

by nehalarya | March 4, 2009 at 09:03 pm

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Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer from an "ailing landscape" of health services, a new study claims.

The Lancet medical journal report highlights how 10% of Palestinian children now have stunted growth.

The paper describes the healthcare system in the Palestinian territories as "fragmented and incoherent".Experts from Birzeit University say death rates among children and expectant mothers have failed to decline in recent years.

The plateau is in spite of good ante-natal care and high rates of child immunisation.

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amyjudd

flagged this story as Needs Improvement

at 21:26 on March 4th, 2009

nehalarya, I've asked you about this before - your intro is also copied from a news site. It needs to be put in to the highlight box, or you need to write your own introduction.