The Palestinian health ministry has said that six dialysis centers across the Gaza Strip will run out soon of medical supplies necessary to continue providing services for kidney patients.
During a news conference held in Gaza on Sunday the health ministry warned that 1200 patients with kidney failure are at risk of being denied access to dialysis sessions after essential medical consumables started to run low in Gaza.
According to the health ministry the dialysis centers in Gaza provide 14000 sessions for patients per month but they will fail to provide their services within a few days.
Such a large number of patients with kidney failure in Gaza reflects the need to urgently provide the dialysis centers with medical supplies and equipment a spokesperson for the health ministry said.
The spokesperson also affirmed that a large number of kidney failure patients need to undergo diagnostic and imaging tests through special medical devices which the Israeli occupation authority has been refusing to allow into Gaza for over 18 months.
The spokesperson pointed out that the patients who had undergone kidney transplants are also in dire need of strengthening medicines after their surgeries in order to avoid serious health complications that could lead them to use dialysis machines once again.
The ministry also stressed the need to help the only pediatric dialysis center in Gaza which is at the Ranteesi Hospital to obtain its needs of tubes and special medical consumables for 35 children.
