Al Jazeera reports:
Human rights groups in Gaza are urgently requesting that international aid groups and donor groups to intervene and deliver urgent medical aid to Palestinian hospitals in Gaza. Palestinian officials say that Gaza’s medicinal stock is nearly empty and is in crisis. This affects first aid care, in addition to all other levels of medical procedures.
Adham Abu Salmia, Gaza’s Ambulance and Emergency spokesman, says the medical crisis is acute and near catastrophic levels for patients within the health sector of Gaza. If shipment of medicines are not replenished to Gaza stocks in the coming weeks, he says it will worsen.
Dr Basim Naim, the minister of health in the de facto government of Gaza, says 178 types of necessary medications are at near zero balance in stock. He says more than 190 types of medicine in stock are either expired or are close to their expiry date, which has forced his administration to postpone several medical operations.
According to Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, the shortage in stock represents 50 per cent of the total medicine on the inventory of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Gaza could probably use those supplies on their way to Gaza in a couple of weeks. Whether or not those ships even leave port is the question we should be asking:
See:
“Lawfare” is the Latest Form of Israeli-AIPAC Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
http://www.truth-out.org/lawfare-latest-form-israeli-aipac-attack-gaza-freedom-flotilla/1307977176
Long live the people of Gaza and West Bank; long may they endure and then overcome :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blF6Z-S0uUU