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Due to Israeli siege, Gaza runs out of the anesthetic gas used to narcotize patients

 

Health ministry warns: The anesthetic gas used to narcotize patients ran out

[ 17/04/2008 - 05:18 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The health ministry in Gaza warned Thursday that the surgical operation rooms in the Gaza hospitals were shut down and all surgeries were suspended after the anesthetic nitrous oxide used for narcotizing patients during surgeries was depleted.

The ministry appealed to the international health organization and all health and human right institutions to necessarily move to end this disaster afflicted Gaza patients.

The Wafa hospital for rehabilitation and specialist surgery in Gaza announced that its medical and administrative staff resumed providing medical services to the wounded and disabled cases after the hospital was bombed during Israeli aggression on Gaza.

The hospital's administration appealed to the international health and medical institutions to continue to support the hospital especially in light of the difficult conditions in Gaza as a result of the Israeli siege and aggression.

UNRWA: Gaza siege led to uncontrollable humanitarian crisis

[ 17/04/2008 - 09:47 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that the tightened Israeli siege on Gaza for the past ten months especially fuel blockage had led to real disaster to one and a half million Palestinians.

John Ging, the operations director of UNRWA, said that the siege, which culminated in blocking fuel supplies for over a week, was posing real danger to the lives of the Strip's populace and was causing a humanitarian crisis that is hard to control.

Ging called for the immediate return of fuel supplies to Gaza to enable its inhabitants to live in dignity, noting that they are protected by international laws and legitimacy.

The UN official said that the Israeli step of allowing minimum quantities of cooking gas and fuel for the sole electricity generation station in Gaza was "not enough", adding that the Strip was in need of all kinds of fuel especially petrol to enable the sick, doctors, students and ambulance cars to move.

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