The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip said the continued closure of the Rafah crossing is very dangerous for thousands of patients in the enclave.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said yesterday that the closure of the Rafah border crossing deprived 30 per cent of the enclave’s patients from receiving the medicines and medical supplies they need which used to enter before the Egyptian military coup in mid-2013.
The health sector in the Gaza Strip suffers from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies as well as an increasing number of patients who need to travel abroad for treatment, as a result of the continued closure of the border crossing.
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