The Palestinian Health Ministry has warned on Tuesday evening of the tragic repercussions of the fuel crisis rocking the besieged Gaza Strip on the health sector in the enclave.
The Palestinian Health Ministry’s spokesman Dr. Ashraf Qidrah sounded the alarm in a statement shared on Facebook over the acute dearth in fuel supplies a crisis he said has entered a critical stage.
Qidrah warned that vital services at the Shifaa and Naser medical complexes along with other health facilities in Gaza are likely to go out of operation in the next three weeks. Other hospitals including Abu Youssef al-Najar are estimated to shut their door within a couple of weeks.
The Ministry has previously issued several warnings regarding a shortage of fuel which threatens the progress of life-saving health services in the besieged coastal enclave of Gaza.
The Gaza Strip has been grappling with abject socio-economic and humanitarian conditions due to the 12-year-long blockade enforced by the Israeli occupation leaving over two million Palestinians locked up in the world’s “largest open-air prison”.
