Where can I find information about medical evacuation from Gaza?
During 2024, Norway will receive up to 20 patients from Gaza and their accompanying person(s).
Patients who are eligible for medical evacuation have serious illness or life-threatening conditions that require specialised hospital services.
UDI does not know when the first patients and their accompanying person(s) will arrive.
Each patient may be accompanied by one person
The main rule is that each patient can bring one accompanying person, but that there is flexibility to be able to include a few more, so that, for example, younger siblings are not left alone.
The accompanying person can be siblings, parents or another caregiver. In total, Norway has offered to receive up to 100 people.
UDI must grant an entry permit and provide a place to stay
To facilitate the medical evacuation from Gaza, UDI will work with hospitals and asylum centres.
UDI is responsible for issuing an entry permit to the patients and their accompanying persons.
UDI must provide a place to stay for the accompanying persons and provide a place to stay for patients when they have ended their hospital stay. Bufetat must provide a place to stay if the patient is a minor under the age of 15 and does not have an accompanying person.
You cannot apply for medical evacuation
You cannot apply or ask UDI to come to Norway through the medical evacuation scheme (Medevac Gaza). It is the World Health Organization (WHO) or one of the countries in the region that requests the evacuation of the individual patient. The various countries that are part of the Medevac scheme assess whether they can offer evacuation to the individual patient and then notify the WHO or the country that requested evacuation.
More information on medical evacuation from Gaza can be found here: