New Delhi, June 19: While addressing a gathering, Palestinian Ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh brought attention to the deteriorating state of affairs of the health infrastructure in Palestine. Videos showing the bombed hospitals in the Gaza Strip were played before the starting of the press conference.
“The Palestinian embassy in India expresses its profound concern over the catastrophic collapse of the healthcare sector in the occupied Palestinian territory. On the 986 day of the genocidal Israeli war, the healthcare system in Gaza has reached an unprecedented degree of devastation. The World Health Organization has warned that Gaza Health System has reached to a breaking point,” says Abdullah Abu Shawesh, Palestinian Ambassador to India.
“International humanitarian organisations have further reported critical shortages of anesthesia, antibiotics, dialysis supplies, blood units, surgical equipment, insulin, and fuel required to operate hospital generators. The ongoing Israeli military genocidal war has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, casualties, and injuries, overwhelming the remaining healthcare facilities, while thousands of patients continue to remain in urgent need of medical evacuation outside the Gaza Strip,” adds Shawesh.
“At the same time, occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem is facing an escalating healthcare crisis as a result of severe Israeli financial strangulation measures, including the continued withholding of Palestinian tax revenues. These policies have caused an unprecedented shortage in public funding, particularly affecting the Palestinian healthcare sector, upon which the vast majority of Palestinians depend as beneficiaries of public medical services,” further adds Shwaesh.
