Palestinian Hospitals Suffer From Shortages Of Medical Supplies
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Bassam Hasona
A Palestinian patient Bassam Hasona ,60, has kidney dialysis in the kidney department at the Al-Shifa hospital March 17, 2008 in Gaza, the Gaza Strip. Palestinian human rights organizations and the Health Ministry have warned of a collapse in Palestinian public health services due to economic sanctions, the Israeli siege and cuts to international aid which has caused a shortage of basic disposable medical supplies. A human rights coalition of eight British-based human rights organizations claim that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached its worst point since Israel captured the territory in 1967.
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