Red Cross: Gaza medicine crisis needs attention

Ma'an- The Gaza medication crisis is "enormous and needs concentrated efforts" to see its resolution, Red Cross official Omer Ferry said Wednesday.

Ferry said the organization would continue supporting the health sector in any way it could, but called on the Palestinian Ministry of Health to look seriously at the problem.

The Red Cross announced Tuesday that it had donated its stockpiled medications to public hospitals in Gaza.

Hospitals are to be given medications identified as being in shortage, and they will be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis until the stockpiles run dry.

A Red Cross official said that a recent import of 19 loads of medicines delivered by the Palestinian Authority, in coordination with Israel's Civil Administration, were limited, and more work was necessary to alleviate the crisis.