Due to a lack of medical care and supplies, more than 1,200 Palestinians with renal ailments in the besieged coastal enclave of Gaza are experiencing significant health problems.
These patients run the risk of not being able to attend their scheduled dialysis appointments and are subject to serious health risks, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.
A Medicinal Scarcity
The Gaza Strip has been without diagnostic tests for more than 18 months as a result of the Israeli occupation’s ban on the delivery of mobile imaging equipment and X-rays. After the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement seized power in the region in 2007, the blockade was put in place.
As a result, patients like Samia al-Jammaly, a kidney disease sufferer in Gaza, must wait a long time for their routine blood tests at al-Shifa Hospital.
- Over 1,200 Palestinians face renal issues in Gaza due to inadequate medical care.
- Gaza Strip faces an 18-month diagnostic test ban due to Israeli occupation.
- Gaza patient suffers agony; calls for international pressure on Israel.
Without distinguishing between healthy and sick individuals, the Israeli occupation punishes everyone in Gaza, seriously deteriorating their health. Dialysis treatments for kidney patients in Gaza frequently run up to four hours and are administered through a tiny plastic tube.
Another patient from Gaza, Sameh al-Ayoubi, experiences persistent agony and is unable to access any other kind of care. Al-Jammaly and Al-Ayoubi call on the international community to put Israel under pressure to lift its restrictions on medical supplies and equipment so that patients can freely travel between Gaza and the West Bank.
10% of the world’s population is afflicted by chronic renal disease, which is ranked 18th on the list of fatal illnesses.
