On the 265th day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that 70 percent of the essential medicines its warehouses are missing, warning of an imminent running out of medicines and medical supplies for specific diseases such as cancer and kidney failure.
Kifah Tuman, director of pharmacy warehouses at the ministry, said in a statement, “70 percent of the list of basic medicines is missing, and there are medicines and medical supplies for treating special diseases, such as tumours and kidney failure, that have almost finished.”
Tuman warned of the repercussions of the “severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies on the lives of patients, who are unable to leave the Gaza Strip to complete treatment abroad.”
He pointed out that there is a severe shortage of treatments of primary care services for mothers and children, and medications for mental health.
He also warned of “the spread of epidemics among patients due to their lack of personal hygiene and good nutrition,” calling for the intervention of relevant international authorities to support the health sector with the medicines and medical supplies necessary to continue providing services to the sick and wounded.
According to the government media office in Gaza; Thousands of patients in the Gaza Strip face death due to the lack of medicines and the occupation’s destruction of most of the health system in the Gaza Strip.
Since the start of its aggression on Gaza on October 7, the Israeli occupation army deliberately targeted Gaza’s hospitals and its health system, and put most of the Strip’s hospitals out of service, which endangered the lives of the sick and wounded.
Since last October 7; The Israeli occupation forces have been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which has left catastrophic humanitarian and health conditions as a result of the continuous bombing and the prevention of supplies of food, water, medicine and cutting electricity.
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, as it exposes the lives and property of civilians to extreme danger, and causes them great suffering, which requires urgent intervention by the international community to stop the aggression and protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
