Ministry of Health in Gaza received shipment of oncology and primary health care medicines for Al-Shifa medical complex and European Gaza Hospital, funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development in Kuwait and implemented by Riyadh Charity Association for Social Development in Palestine, Within the sixteenth phase of support for the Palestinian people program.
General – Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex Dr. Medhat Abbas said that the shipment carried medicines at a high cost. “It is hoped to help patients with tumors who are prevented from traveling through Beit Hanoun crossing” , he added.
General – Director of Riyadh Charity Association for Social Development Dr. Riyad Shaheen expressed his happiness for implementing several charity projects in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip, pointing to the association established as solidarity initiative with oncology patients and contacted with local and international institutions to highlight their suffering in the light of the siege imposed on Gaza, where the Strip has been suffering from major shortages of medications, and elimination of stock out of 175 essential drugs to treat them.