Medical Physics in Palestine: A Hope for Better Prospective
Date
2018-01-03
Authors
ALMASRI, Hussein
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Springer
Abstract
Palestine is a country in the Middle East compromising
the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the
Gaza Strip which are occupied and under the control of
Israel as shown in Fig. l. The Israeli occupation of Palestine
and the resulting political conditions make it difficult
to objectively assess the situation of medical physics
and many other related fields in Palestine. Medical
physics is one of the main themes that is required to
improve healthcare in Palestine. As a member of Middle
East Federation of Medical Physics (MEFOMP) established
in 2009, Palestine made great efforts to organize
its regional medical physics society under the umbrella
of International Organization for Medical Physics
(IOMP) to further enhance and improve the status of
medical physics across the Globe. In recent years, the
International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP)
is providing assistance to developing part of the world
on a country by country basis1–6). Due to political reasons,
Palestine faces many obstacles to increase the level
of medical physics knowledge such as building the required
infrastructures, acquiring the required
equipment, and upgrading of qualified professionals in
order to develop education, training programs, and national
policies for providing an acceptable patient care
within financial limits and boundaries.
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medical physics , developing countries , education , training