Gaza Cancer Center GCC launches a campaign of mercy and solidarity to support cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Cancer Center GCC launches a campaign of mercy and solidarity to support cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.
GCC and the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital launched the “Mercy and Solidarity” campaign to support cancer patients in the Gaza Strip, focusing on their suffering.
Head of the campaign Dr Munir Al-Bursh, during his speech at the launching conference, said that the suffering of cancer patients is in a critical stage that takes hundreds of patients’ lives annually due to the lack of treatment and medical equipment.
Al-Bursh called on people inside and outside Palestine to contribute to the campaign by exerting their best efforts to provide medicine and equipment for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.
For his part, the Director General of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Dr Sobhi Skaik, spoke about the frequent shortage of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Dr Skaik pointed to the repeated prevention of oncology patients from seeking treatment abroad by the occupation authorities, which targets children, women, and the elderly.
Dr Skaik explained that what the hospital needs is a sustainable provision of chemotherapy treatment, which is in severe shortage, or most of the time unavailable for days, weeks, and sometimes months, calling for all segments of society to unite to provide the treatment that cancer patients need.