{"id":105095,"date":"2020-09-24T16:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/?p=105095"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:41:31","slug":"moh-gaza-the-acute-shortage-of-covid-19-testing-reagents-limits-laboratory-capacity-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/moh-gaza-the-acute-shortage-of-covid-19-testing-reagents-limits-laboratory-capacity-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"MOH-Gaza: The acute shortage of COVID-19 testing reagents limits laboratory capacity by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian MOH in Gaza has reached a difficult stage due to the lack of laboratory materials needed for testing COVID 19 samples in the central laboratory.<br \/>\nThe reagents for the laboratory equipment which  had been donated by some agencies will be finished in the coming hours, and the laboratory&#8217;s ability to conduct a COVID 19 test will be limited. <\/p>\n<p>If this happens, testing Covid sqmples will  affect negatively  the continuation of the epidemiological mapping, disease contacts evaluation , suspected cases, and random swabs within the community.<\/p>\n<p>MOH efforts would have severe consequences to confront the epidemic.  We suffer from  shortage of 50% of laboratory supplies and blood banks, which will affect other tests  needed by COVID 19 patients.<br \/>\nWe call up on all local, regional, and international bodies to save the health situation immediately by intervening to meet our urgent laboratory and medical needs to confront the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian MOH in Gaza has reached a difficult stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":104892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,382,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-latest-news","category-c79-main-title"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-09-14-at-5.12.52-PM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}