The Ministry of Health in Gaza received an urgent shipment of 112,000 liters of fuel as an emergency grant from the Emergency Aid Foundation in Indonesia and the implementation of the Association of Pioneers for Community Development in order to urgently cover the need for eight hospitals to fuel the generators In which .
And through d. Medhat Abbas, Director General of Al-Shifa Medical Complex expressed his thanks and appreciation to Indonesia´s people, government and institutions represented by the emergency aid organization Indonesia for this emergency emergency shipment which comes at a difficult time from the complex situation imposed by the shortage of fuel in the health facilities and the real danger that is threatening at every moment Health services at various levels, which are regularly connected to the electricity supply, which reaches the hours of cutting to more than eight hours a day, which increases the ministry´s needs of fuel monthly to about 540 thousand liters, which decreased to 300 thousand liters due to improved fuel supplies recently.
He called d. Abbas all the concerned parties and the good in the world to contribute to the dismantling of the complex crisis rings that plague the health sector in Gaza because of the continuation of the unjust siege on Gaza, which has long entrenched the health system.
Wadah Bakhit, head of the Pioneers Society for Community Development, said that this emergency aid comes in response to the call by the Ministry of Health after the fuel shortage crisis has reached a serious stage in which hundreds of patients may be denied access to treatment and proper health care.
Bakhit pointed out that the Association has continued with the various bodies to culminate in the arrival of this emergency grant, which meets the need of eight hospitals of fuel for about two weeks. The hospitals benefiting from the grant are the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the European Gaza Hospital, the Martyr Mohammed Al-Durra Children´s Hospital, Beit Hanoun Hospital Al Harazeen Hospital for Childbirth and Al-Shaheed Kamal Adwan Hospital.
