Iran Press/ Africa: The event is organized by Discovery Health, one of South Africa’s biggest health insurance providers. The Future of Health Annual Summit includes participants from the Israeli Ministry of Health, Sheba MedicalCentre and Beth Israel Lahey Health.
Healthcare workers for a free Palestine (HCW4P – SA) say they wrote to Discovery requesting they end the cooperation with the Israeli Health Ministry and Israeli participants as part of the international boycott campaign. However, the company decided to proceed with the conference. The summit schedule lists several officials from the occupying entity as speakers.
Protest representatives Monday evening told Iran Press the conference is an affront since Israel is carrying out a systematic campaign to obliterate the Palestinian health sector, through its bombing campaigns on hospitals and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip.
They describe the decision to include Zionist officials as “ironic”.Holding up posters depicting the extensive destruction of hospitals in Gaza, demonstrators questioned whether Israeli officials could be part of discussions on the ‘future of health’.
The Future of Health(FOH) claims it is a proactive community of senior leaders from prominent health organizations around the world. 219
