The national anti-siege and reconstruction commission in Gaza said that six premature infants have died since the beginning of the current year after failure to provide them with a vital respiratory medicine helping them to breathe normally.
In a statement released on Thursday by the commission 10 percent of 87 preterm infants admitted to the nursery unit of al-Shifa Hospital during the past 37 weeks needed or still need this drug which called “Calfactant.”
The commission warned that premature babies in Gaza would remain under constant threat of death as long as this important drug was unavailable in hospitals.
