Patients with ‘kidney failure’ in Gaza face ‘slow death’ verdict

The direct Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has stopped, but its devastating effects on the health sector have left kidney failure patients facing challenges that plague their fate, in light of the sharp decline in the services provided to them. Fifteen months of Israel‘s genocidal war wiped out their services, and the reality of kidney failure patients became tragic as they lived a daily battle for survival. Between dialysis centers, which have shrunk significantly, the journey of searching for appropriate treatment, an acute shortage of medicines and medical devices, and the crisis of losing healthy food, and drinking water commensurate with their health condition, kidney failure patients spent the days of aggression suffering the pain of reality, while death awaited dozens of those who were deprived of care, medicine and dialysis. In this context, Dr. Munir Al–Barsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, revealed in an interview with the Qatar News Agency (QNA) that “40% of kidney patients in the Gaza Strip died, due to the lack of health services during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, while the danger threatens those who remain due to the difficulty of continuing to provide medical services to them after the cessation of aggression.”