The blockaded Gaza Strip has run out of 90% of medicines for cancer-stricken patients and those with blood diseases the Palestinian Health Ministry warned Wednesday.
The Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra appealed to the concerned institutions to take urgent action as regards the acute shortage in much-needed medicines.
He attributed the crisis to the suspension of medicine supplies by the Ramallah-based authorities.
The Palestinian official further pushed for granting sick Gazans medical referrals to receive treatment outside of Gaza’s resource-deprived hospitals.
On Tuesday the head of the kidney department at al-Shifaa Medical Complex Dr. Abdullah al-Qishawi warned of the acute dearth in Tacrolimus—an immunosuppressive drug used mainly after allogeneic organ transplant to lower the risk of organ rejection.
