GAZA, (PIC)
Gaza’s health ministry issued a desperate appeal on Wednesday for providing the remaining hospitals with electric generators to help salvage the ailing health care system in the besieged and warn-torn enclave.
In a statement, the ministry stressed the urgent need to purchase essential generators to ensure hospitals can continue functioning.
“However, many of these generators have suffered significant technical failures, making repairs difficult. Some have even been directly targeted and destroyed by the aggressive Israeli forces,” the ministry added.
The ministry warned that several key generators are expected to stop operating soon because necessary spare parts for preventive and regular maintenance are not being allowed in.
“This impending crisis threatens the lives of patients and exacerbates the already strained healthcare services,” it said.
In a related context, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for urgent international assistance to restart hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement on Wednesday, MSF said that the health system in Gaza lacks the most basic equipment and supplies in the midst of daily casualties and exhausted medical teams working under great pressure.
MSF affirmed that “with every attack, medical teams in Gaza are put under unbearable pressure in a health system that is already stretched to its limits.”
