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  A Thousand Patients Die While Waiting for Treatment Abroad

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November 21, 2025
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Gaza (QNN)- Gaza’s health system continues to collapse even weeks after 
the ceasefire started. Hospitals stand without equipment. Medicine 
stocks reach zero. Patients die while they wait for treatment. Dr. Munir 
Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, reveals 
this grim reality.

He says the health system no longer resembles a functioning structure. 
Destroyed walls and empty operating rooms show the massive damage. In an 
interview on Al Jazeera, he describes Gaza’s situation as a “collapsed 
infrastructure” with a severe shortage of essential supplies.

Al-Bursh reports that shortages of basic medicines reached 84%. Forty 
percent of emergency medicines ran out completely for the first time in 
the ministry’s history. Medical supplies face an unprecedented 71% deficit.

Even simple items like gauze disappeared. IV fluids will last only one 
month. This makes primary care almost impossible. Fuel and 
communications remain cut. Most laboratories stopped working.

Aid remains limited. Only two out of five weekly aid trucks reach the 
Ministry of Health. International organizations take the rest. Al-Bursh 
says this quantity “means nothing” compared to Gaza’s needs.

The shortage hits cancer patients hard. Cancer medicines face a 71% 
deficit. Ninety percent of orthopedic surgery supplies vanished. 
Thousands of injured people now request medical transfer outside Gaza 
because basic surgical tools no longer exist.

Al-Bursh shares alarming data. About 82% of infants under one year 
suffer from anemia. He says this number exposes the depth of the 
humanitarian disaster and contradicts Israeli claims about food access.

More than 18,000 people applied for medical travel. They include 7,000 
wounded individuals and 5,000 children, along with cancer patients and 
urgent surgical cases. But the crossing remains closed. Their situation 
grows worse every day.

He says Israel presents a misleading picture by letting consumer goods 
enter Gaza while blocking medical devices and essential supplies. This 
policy deepens the health crisis.

Al-Bursh lists urgent needs. Emergency and surgical medicines face a 54% 
shortage. Medical supplies suffer a 71% deficit. The ministry also needs 
field hospitals and spare parts to repair damaged devices.

He believes Gaza’s medical teams can rebuild the system once supplies 
enter and crossings open. He points to their ability to run emergency 
rooms without electricity and perform surgeries without proper equipment 
during the war.

Al-Bursh outlines the steps needed for recovery: open the crossings, 
ensure the flow of medicines and supplies, allow fuel in, and bring 
medical devices and field hospitals. Without these steps, he says death 
becomes “the easiest thing people face.”

He reveals that 1,000 patients died while waiting for medical transfer. 
They had official documents proving their need for treatment abroad. He 
calls this one of the most dangerous signs of the health system’s collapse.

He adds another tragic number. Six thousand people lost limbs and now 
need physical and psychological rehabilitation. They require prosthetics 
and wheelchairs. He warns that this file is “extremely dangerous” in the 
absence of resources.

Psychological trauma worsens their suffering. Even basic painkillers do 
not exist. He stresses that the world watches the tragedy and does nothing.

Al-Bursh concludes that Gaza faces a complete health collapse. 
Rebuilding the sector depends on opening the crossings and allowing 
medical and humanitarian aid to flow. Until that happens, thousands of 
patients in Gaza remain on the edge of death every single day.
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