*(COVID-19) Updates in Gaza Strip, May 17, 2020.*
💫Since the beginning of April, MOH confirmed 20 cases with COVID19; 16 of them have recovered, the remaining 4 are still under treatment. Most of the patients have been asymptomatic and no critical cases recorded among them.
💫The preventive medical department at MOH took 488 samples from Gaza returnees to test for Covid-19 and they are still under investigation.
💫MoH has been providing medical services for more than 1566 returnees in 16 different quarantine centers, among those returnees 108 patients who need special care were directed to Al-sadaka, Al-Shifa, and Naser Hospital.
💫MOH has been suffering from a chronic shortage of medicine and medical supplies, in the absence of 44% of essential drugs, 29%medical supplies, and 56% of laboratory reagents.
💫Gaza’s portion of the total medical assistant should be 47 million USD from Ramalla MOH, but the actual amount on the ground was (5%).
💫Today, we are still appealing to the United Nations, and the bodies of concern to urgently provide the health sector in Gaza with medical consumables, medicines, personal protective equipment PPE, ventilators, and examination kits to diagnose COVID19, to preserve the lives of the population. We also appeal to pressurize the occupation authorities to end the suffocating siege that has been affecting all humanitarian aspects of 2 million Gazans for more than 13 years.
Palestinian Ministry of Health-Gaza
May 17, 2020
