Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

Health Ministry : We are waiting for medicine arrival to Gaza

2011-08-10 | Alresalah News

Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)–Dr. Monir El-Bursh, the general manager of pharmacy in Palestinian Health Ministry, declared that 40% of medicines deserved to Gaza’s hospital was scheduled to arrive in Gaza the next few days.

El-Bursh pointed out that the Health Ministry calls many international associations inside and outside Gaza in order to put pressures on Ministry of Health of Ramallah to provide the besieged Gaza strip with its share of medicines donated by the international Bank.

He confirmed that a health catastrophe might hit Gaza because of the shortage of medicine due to the fact that spare medicine still gets reduce.

He added:” For long time, no type of medicine or medical consumptive is still available in Health Ministry’s stores. Some 180 types of medicine and another 149 types of medical consumptive have entirely consumed .”

He warned that such situation in the besieged gaza strip would lead to health catastrophe in case of getting continued.

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