Human Rights Center Warns of Collapse of Gaza Health System

Gaza, MINA – Hemaya Center for Human Rights on Wednesday warned of the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip due to the acute power shortage.

The Center warned in a statement of what it called the “serious repercussions” of the fuel crisis on Gaza’s health sector, PIC reported.

Gaza’s Health Ministry on Monday said that some departments in Gaza hospitals are threatened with closure including the departments of dialysis, surgeries, baby incubation, and intensive care in addition to other departments concerned with assistive, administrative and diagnostic services as a result of the severe shortage in the fuel needed to operate the Ministry’s various facilities.

The Palestinian Center asked the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas to intervene immediately to end the crisis plaguing Gaza’s different sectors and called on the PA government to take the necessary measures to keep medical facilities in Gaza running.

It also called for an urgent action by the World Health Organization and the international community to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip and pressure the Israeli occupation to lift the decade-long blockade imposed on the enclave.(T/R04/P2)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)