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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">A Thousand Patients Die While
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<p>Gaza (QNN)- Gaza\u2019s 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.</p>
<p>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\u2019s
situation as a \u201ccollapsed infrastructure\u201d with a
severe shortage of essential supplies.</p>
<p>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\u2019s history. Medical supplies face an
unprecedented 71% deficit.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 \u201cmeans nothing\u201d compared to
Gaza\u2019s needs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>He believes Gaza\u2019s 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.</p>
<p>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 \u201cthe easiest thing people face.\u201d</p>
<p>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\u2019s collapse.</p>
<p>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 \u201cextremely
dangerous\u201d in the absence of resources.</p>
<p>Psychological trauma worsens their suffering. Even
basic painkillers do not exist. He stresses that the
world watches the tragedy and does nothing.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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