Palestinian, Egyptian health ministers visit Rafah crossing to check on wounded Palestinians in Al-Arish Hospital

Health Minister Mai Alkaila and her Egyptian counterpart, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, inspected today Palestinians who were injured in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and receiving treatment at Al-Arish General Hospital, North Sinai, Egypt. Alkaila expressed her appreciation to the Egyptian political leadership for the efforts made towards Palestine and to the efforts of the Egyptian Ministry of Health to receive the wounded Palestinians to complete their treatment in Egyptian hospitals. She further praised efforts exerted by Egypt to receive aid and facilitate its delivery to the Gaza Strip. For his part, Abdel-Ghaffar reviewed the Egyptian efforts to receive the injured from the Gaza Strip and treat them in various Egyptian hospitals, noting that more than 150 fully-equipped ambulances were lined up at the Rafah crossing, to provide medical services to those crossing into Egypt. Alkaila called on the United Nations and international health bodies to intervene and pressure the occupation army to allo w the entry of the ministry's medical teams and medical volunteers from all other countries into the Strip. She warned of the epidemiological and catastrophic health situation in the Gaza Strip, particularly at sheltering centers in schools, hospitals, and refugee camps, and displaced communities, which lack the basic necessities of life; such as water, food, and medicine. She warned that some infectious diseases have spread among the people of the Gaza Strip as a result of overcrowding, lack of cleaning and hygiene items, and malnutrition, citing the latest update by the World Health Organization in which it warned of starvation in the Strip arising from the acute shortage in food supplies. Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA