A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip Ashraf al-Qadra, that hospitals in the sector "face an unprecedented crisis of lack of medicines and medical consumables essential."
Al-Qudra said in a press statement Tuesday evening that the medical crisis witnessed by hospitals and health centers is the most difficult during the years of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Al-Qudra pointed out that his ministry´s annual requirement of medicines and medical consumables is $ 40 million, of which $ 10 million will be available during the first half of this year. "The funds that are available are for medicines and medical consumables from different quarters, which represents half of our needs in the six months." The spokesman for the "Health of Gaza", that the decline in various responses to the needs of patients caused the deprivation of 50 percent of patients in the Gaza Strip from treatment. He called on all parties to take urgent and effective measures to meet the pharmacological needs of patients with tumors, blood diseases, immunology, kidneys, various types of therapeutic milk, neurological and psychiatric drugs, chronic diseases, pregnant women, children and primary care. Hospitals in the Gaza Strip and health centers suffer from severe shortage of specialized drugs, medical consumables, laboratory tests, and diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, while the Israeli occupation has prevented or prevented their travel to complete treatment. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has taken a number of punitive measures against the Gaza Strip, including cuts in electricity subsidies, cutting salaries, and restricting the delivery of medicines to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation imposed a strict siege on the Gaza Strip for 13 years. All crossings and border crossings connecting Gaza with the outside world are closed through Egypt or the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, except for the partial opening of some goods and passengers. And the impact of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, the health situation of the sector, which led to the decline of the health system in the absence of medicine, and the entry of electricity and fuel crisis on the health sector seriously.
