European parliamentarians meet with health minister in Gaza

[P F Tinmore]

GAZA, (PIC)-- A high-profile delegation of parliamentarians from various European countries has met with Gaza Health Minister Bassem Na'im on a tour of the Gaza Strip.

Minister Na'im briefed the delegation headed by British Labor party chairman Tony Lloyd on the effects the Israeli political and economic blockade has had on the Strip's health sector.

According to the figures he presented, 163 essential medicines and 149 medical consumables have run out in the besieged enclave.

Na'im also brought up the ill effects the eight hour a day power outages have had on the hospitals' medical equipment, also blaming the Israeli siege over the situation.

European parliamentarians meet with health minister in Gaza

 

[abu afak]

Tinhead's Daily Propaganda from Palestine-info.
He's a Shameless mouthpiece/DRONE/Spammer for this absurdly biased site.

So what about this shortage of 149 of 163 medicines?
Israel's fault?
Flotilla needed?

Gaza Health Official: PA Failing to Send Medicine
July 25, Maan
Gaza Health Official: PA Failing to Send Medicine, 25 July 2011 Monday 10:51

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf Al-Qedra on Saturday accused the Palestinian Authority of trying to obstruct national unity by failing to send sufficient medicine to the Gaza Strip.

Al-Qedra said the Hamas-run health ministry sent lists of Gaza's medical needs to the PA but that the Ramallah-based government still did not send enough medicine.

The Hamas spokesman said the health sector had been in crisis since early June due to severe shortages of 163 medicines and 149 items of medical equipment. One-third of the patients in Gaza's hospital were affected, he said.

Al-Qedra said the PA's policy aimed to obstruct reconciliation by deepening the division between the Fatah-led PA in the West Bank and the Hamas-run government in Gaza.

"We have demanded more than once that the PA government distance itself from the health issue ... to put the rights of patients in Gaza at the top of [its priorities] but the practice in the field until recently does not go along with signing a conciliation agreement."
On May 4, Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo to end years of hostility.

Maan News
Monday, 25 July 2011

 

[P F Tinmore]

The PA in Ramallah is a US dictatorship.