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Gaza hospitals facing severe shortages

Thursday, 10 May 2018 5:22 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 10 May 2018 5:24 PM ]

Palestinian men wounded at the Israel-Gaza border wait after receiving treatments at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 1, 2018. (AFP)

Ashraf Shannon
Press TV, Gaza

The health sector in the Gaza Strip is struggling to save lives amid severe shortages of medicine and surgical supplies, the worst in over a decade. The situation in the besieged region has deteriorated due to the high number of injuries caused by Israel's crackdown of the Great Return March rallies.

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