Ramallah-based Ministry of Health on Sunday announced sending truckloads of medicine to Venezuela as a donation from the Palestinian Authority (PA) based on a decision by the PA president Mahmoud Abbas.
PA Health Minister Jawad Awad said that three trucks of medical supplies used in first aid and emergency situations were sent to Venezuela.
PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said that Abbas’s decision came in response to an appeal by the Venezuelan government because of “the difficult circumstances experienced by the country and attempts by the extreme right to overthrow the regime”.
This move comes at a time when the Gaza Strip is suffering from a major health crisis as a result of a series of punitive measures waged by Abbas against the coastal enclave the most important of which are suspending patients’ medical referrals and depriving Gaza’s Ministry of Health of its share of medicines.
