Maan News Agency | Aug 14, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s electricity company may have to turn off the sole power station in the coastal enclave, a company official warned Sunday. Chief Executive Officer Walid Sad Sayel said the company would delay switching off the station until Sunday even though it needed repairs and [...]
Tag Archives: Health
Continued Efforts to Establish a National Center Dedicated to Treating Cancer Patients in Palestine
PNN – Palestine News Network - 14.08.11 – 12:31 Jenin – PNN – Ali Samoudi – Statistics and official data show that Palestinian society is prone to very high incidences of cancer, without a doubt due to a number of known factors: the absence of any institutions or officials to deal with the disease and [...]
Health ministry: Cancer patients are exposed to pharmaceutical piracy
[ 10/08/2011 - 03:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of health said patients with leukemia and cancer tumors in Gaza hospitals are exposed by Israel and the Palestinian authority (PA) to what it described as “pharmaceutical piracy” threatening their lives. In a press release, spokesman for the ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra stated that one [...]
Prisoner falls into coma amid medical neglect at Negev prison
[ 11/08/2011 - 10:34 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Zakariyya Dawud Issa, 43, from Khadar in Bethlehem governorate, has fallen into a coma after not being served the proper treatment by the Negev prison ward, sources among the prisoners have reported. They added that symptoms had been appearing on Issa for months without being given the [...]
Health Ministry : We are waiting for medicine arrival to Gaza
2011-08-10 | Alresalah News Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)–Dr. Monir El-Bursh, the general manager of pharmacy in Palestinian Health Ministry, declared that 40% of medicines deserved to Gaza’s hospital was scheduled to arrive in Gaza the next few days. El-Bursh pointed out that the Health Ministry calls many international associations inside and outside Gaza in order to put pressures [...]
Ambulance with Patients on Board Delayed at Israeli Checkpoint
Tuesday August 09, 2011 11:33 by Danny Johnes – IMEMC and Agencies An ambulance carrying victims of a fatal car accident was significantly delayed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank. Ambulance Being Blocked by Israeli Soldiers (palsolidarity.org) The Palestinian ambulance carrying victims of the accident to the hospital was delayed at [...]
Abul-Sabeh holds Negev administration responsible for lives of detainees
[ 08/08/2011 - 05:48 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of prisoners’ affairs Attallah Abul-Sabeh held the Israeli administration of Negev jail fully responsible for the lives of Palestinian detainees in its custody after 40 of them fell sick of food poisoning. Abul-Sabeh stated that the prisoners ate Sahoor meals (a meal eaten just before [...]
Some of entitled medicines to arrive in Gaza in days
[ 07/08/2011 - 04:34 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Munir al-Bersh, the Gaza health ministry’s director-general of pharmaceuticals, said a portion of entitled medicines are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip within the next few days. Bersh said the health ministry has contacted organizations both at home and abroad in a bid to pressure the [...]
Family of Palestinian captive appeal for saving his life
[ 05/08/2011 - 04:29 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Family of captive Imad al-Masri, who spent more than 22 years in occupation jails, met with the Red Cross representative in Jenin, Dima Mahajnah, to express concern over the deterioration of his health. Masri’s family called on the international organisation to intervene to save the life of [...]
The crisis of medicines reached a grave level
04-08-2011,13:45 Al Qassam website- Gaza- senior health official warned that the crisis of medicines and medical consumables have reached a dangerous level threatening the lives of patients in Gaza hospitals and became much worse than the situation that preceded the Israeli war. Information director at the Palestinian health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra told a news conference [...]
Gazan Thalassemic Children Plead For Life
By Saleh Jadallah | Bernama | Aug 3, 2011 GAZA STRIP, Aug 3 (Bernama) — Palestinian children infected with Thalassemia have called on the international community and human rights organisations to exert pressure on Israel to end its blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007. The Gaza-based ministry of health reported that 75 children are facing [...]
Gaza faces imminent health crisis
PressTV -Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:50PM GMT Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have warned of an imminent health crisis due to a severe shortage of medicines and fuel in the coastal sliver. The health ministry has stressed that the lives of hundreds of patients, especially those with chronic diseases, are [...]
Crisis of medical supplies in Gaza shoots up
[ 31/07/2011 - 09:49 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– An official at the Palestinian health ministry said that the list of medical supplies that ran out in the Gaza Strip rose to 180 types of medicines and 149 of medical disposables. The ministry’s public relations and information director Ashraf Al-Qudra warned on Saturday that this acute [...]
Operational Update ICRC – Gaza: a never-ending effort to relieve suffering – Contact Details Included
28-07-2011 Operational Update For four years, Gazans have been living in a closed environment, in which the movement of goods and people are subject to severe restrictions. The ICRC is involved in an array of activities intended to ease their hardship. This is an update on its activities. All 1.6 million Gazans, packed in to [...]
European parliamentarians meet with health minister in Gaza
[ 28/07/2011 - 07:34 AM ] 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 [...]