Gaza doctor making effort to boost primary care doctors

Gaza doctor making effort to boost primary care doctors

TOKYO, Japan - Doctor Mohammed Maqadma, chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees' health program, speaks in an interview. He has been working to increase primary care doctors in the Palestine autonomous region of Gaza.

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