Al-Maliki discusses with WHO`S Director ways to secure the entry of medicine and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip

RAMALLAH: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, today discussed with the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, ways to secure the entry of medicine, vaccines, and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of field hospitals and the entry of doctors and health sector workers, in order to support workers in the Palestinian health sector. Al-Maliki also renewed, during the meeting held at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, his call for organizing an international campaign to take all serious and urgent steps to ensure the provision of urgent relief, humanitarian, food and medical aid to the Gaza Strip, and to enable international organizations to carry out their tasks without obstacles, and to ensure full protection. In turn, Ghebreyesus expressed his deep concern over what the health sector is exposed to in Palestine, and its tragic impact on the health of civilians and life in general. Stressing that what the World Health Organization is doing in Gaza is merely an implementation of its basic mission of ensuring health for all and supporting the health sector. The meeting was attended by Rick Pepperkorn, Director of the World Health Organization's Office in Jerusalem, the Permanent Observer Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ibrahim Khreishi, the Assistant Minister for the United Nations and International Organizations, Omar Awadallah, and Counselor Riyad Awaja from the Palestine Mission in Geneva. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA