The Palestinian health ministry has said that the hospitals in the Gaza Strip suffer from an acute shortage of medicines and essential medical consumables describing it as “the most difficult crisis during the years of the Israeli blockade.”
Spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra stated on Tuesday that the ministry’s annual needs of medical supplies are worth $40 million but it received during the first half of the current year only a $10 million worth of medicines and medical consumables from different parties.
Qudra added that the failure to meet the needs of patients deprived 50 percent of them of receiving medical treatment.
He urged the concerned parties and donors to urgently provide Gaza with its needs of medical supplies.
