Gaza’s health system could collapse in ‘few hours’, authorities sayGaza’s health ministry has said the health system across the devastated enclave could collapse in a “few hours”.
“A few hours separate us from the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip as a result of the failure to bring in the fuel necessary to operate electricity generators in hospitals, ambulances, and transport employees,” the ministry was quoted by Al Jazeera as saying in a post on social media.
Only around a third of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and primary health care centres are working and all face acute shortages of medicine, basic medical supplies, fuel and manpower.