Health ministry: 141 types of medicines and medical items out of stock

The department of pharmaceutics at the health ministry in the Gaza Strip has announced that a big number of medications and medical items were out of stock in its stores.

The department in a statement on Wednesday said that 141 types of medicine and medical items including a number of badly needed types were out of stock.

Munir Al-Barsh, the director of the department, said that dialysis items were among those types along with others needed for major surgeries.

He added that 10 other types would be consumed within three months, 26 types within two months and 29 types within one month.

Describing the situation as “serious”, Barsh called on honorable people of the world to stand alongside the patients in Gaza Strip