Israel’s power cuts to Gaza are pushing the health system to the brink of collapse

The Israeli occupation authorities’ prevention of the entry of generators, spare parts, and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip is hindering the continued functioning of hospitals.

Furthermore, the lives of patients and the injured are now at risk due to Israel’s power cuts to the Strip, pushing the healthcare system toward complete collapse.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip issued an exceptional appeal for help from the destroyed Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, in the northern part of the Strip, denouncing the unprecedented collapse in the stocks of medicine and medical supplies, which have reached catastrophic levels that threaten the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, amid the Israeli occupation’s insistence on its tight siege even after the ceasefire agreement came into effect on October 10th.

The severe shortage recorded in the most prominent hospitals in Gaza City and the sector as a whole has damaged several departments, which has led to a near-complete halt of services in the orthopedic surgery department, and a sharp reduction in dialysis sessions, while cancer and blood disease drugs have run out, operating rooms are devoid of anesthesia drugs, and the intensive care unit is without artificial respiration tubes.