Gaza Health System Collapsing, the UN Just Gives the Report
NOVANEWS
When hospitals use up their fuel within a week, the lives of some 1,700 patients will be at immediate risk, says a WHO report.
A Palestinian child is held by his mother in Dora hospital in Gaza City, February 6, 2018.
At the end of January, Gaza’s public health care system had run out of 206 essential medicines – that is 40 percent of medications included in the basic Palestinian health basket. A further 27 drugs – or 6 percent of the 516 medications in the basket – were about to be depleted within days or weeks. There is a dire shortage in essential drugs such as those required for performing cardiac angiographies, treating cancer and autoimmune diseases and performing dialysis. Of a list of 853 disposable medical equipment items, 220 were expected to be unobtainable by the end ...