WHO: Medicine critically low due to Gaza aid block

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Palestinians queue to receive medicine at the UNRWA Japanese Health Center in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 29, 2024. (AFP file photo)
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  • Lack of medicine making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational

GENEVA: Medicine stocks are critically low due to the aid block in Gaza, making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
“We are critically low in our three warehouses, on antibiotics, IV fluids and blood bags,” WHO official Rik Peeperkorn told reporters in Geneva via video link from Jerusalem.

Topics: War on Gaza Gaza WHO