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Israel’s ban on entry of medical equipment to Gaza puts patients at risk

The Palestinian Ministry of Health yesterday warned that Israel's ongoing ban on the entry of urgently needed medical equipment to Gaza threatens the life of patients, Quds Press reported. Assistant Deputy Minister, Bassam Hamadeen, called on the international community to put pressure on the occupation in order to help lift the ban on medical equipment. Hamadeen also said that the Israeli occupation authorities prevent the entry of many spare parts needed to […]

today22 November 2022

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Concerns around shortage of medical supplies health equipment

An expert has urged South Africans to adhere to lockdown regulations aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus or South Africa could face an unsustainable epidemic that would cripple the country’s health system.  Global health specialist Dr Zameer Brey expressed concern over pointless panic buying and that it threatens the health systems ability to adequately attend to patients. Brey said the message from the government, the department of health […]

today1 April 2020

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More than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza died from Israeli blockade

The Gaza Strip's collective of charitable organisations said more than 1,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave. The coordinator of the organisations, Ahmad al-Kurd, also said on Sunday that five premature babies born in the past few days died because of a lack of available medical treatment. "Out of the 1,000 or so victims of the blockade, 450 died as a […]

today26 February 2018

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Medicines in such short supply in Gaza, treatments will stop

Medication supplies in the Gaza Strip have reached dangerously low levels after the decision was made to stop providing hospital and health centres in the southern municipalities with the required items, a senior official in the Ministry of Health warned today. Munir Al-Barsh, General Director of Pharmacy in the in Gaza, stressed during a press conference that as of April, there were 170 types of medications that are not available […]

today24 May 2017

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