Beirut - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Palestinian Agency for International Cooperation concluded its first medical program in the field of corneal transplantation at Martyr Mahmoud Al Hamshari Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, in cooperation with the Embassy of the State of Palestine, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the American Eversight Eye Bank.

The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Lebanese Republic, Ashraf Dabbour, said that the mission of the Palestinian Agency for International Cooperation was successful on the Palestinian and Lebanese levels, and contributed to developing and strengthening communication links between the Palestinian people in their various places of residence, in implementation of the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas to provide all possible support to the Lebanese camps in various fields. Including those related to the medical field.

In his turn, the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Cooperation, Director General of PICA, Ambassador Imad Al-Zuhairi, affirmed that this first qualitative program comes to strengthen the ties of cooperation with our people from the Palestinian community in the Lebanese camps and to meet their medical needs within the available capabilities provided by the Palestinian Agency in cooperation with its partners and in a way that contributes to Alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian refugee in a way that achieves integration between the various components of the Palestinian people in Palestine, the countries of expatriation and the refugee camps.

He emphasized the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Al-Maliki to break barriers and geographical borders to implement a number of other programs during the next year in various medical fields to serve the Palestinians. They performed cornea transplants for patients at Martyr Mahmoud Al-Hamshari Hospital, which were successful.

Source: Wafa, the official news agency.