Dr Kamal Okasha

Dr Kamal Okasha – our new acting Clinical Director in Gaza – was first appointed ophthalmic surgeon at the satellite centre on 17th November 2005.  But his association with the Hospital Group goes back much farther – to a severe eye trauma that he suffered as a five year old, and which was successfully treated at the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. 

At the time of his appointment to the Gaza Clinic, he was quoted in Jerusalem Scene as saying that the memory of this treatment had inspired his dream to become an eye doctor.

Dr Okasha studied medicine and general surgery at the University of Moscow, graduating in 1998.  Six years later, he received his doctorate in ophthalmic surgery from the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery State Institution, also in Russia. 

Immediately after graduation, he returned to Gaza, where he worked for a year at the municipal hospital, before being recruited by the Al Mezan Specialist Hospital in Hebron and then returning to Gaza in 2005. 

Okasha made history at the St John Clinic by executing the first paediatric cataract extraction and amniotic membrane graft ever performed in the Gaza Strip, considered at that time to be the most modern way to perform such operations.

In addition to his undoubted surgical skill, Dr. Okasha participates in many local and international ophthalmic conferences.

We are all very pleased that he remains with us in Gaza and that his acting tenure there has got off to such a propitious beginning.