Minister of Health speaks with UN Deputy Special Coordinator on several files

Ramallah – Screen News: Palestinian Minister of Health, Dr. May Al-Kila with UN Deputy Special Coordinator and Coordinator of Humanitarian Aid in Palestine, Jimmy McGoldrick. The health situation in Palestine and the challenges facing it.

This came during the meeting of Dr. A met on Wednesday Mr. McGoldrick, where she informed him about the sanitary situation in Palestine in general and the efforts made by the government to support the health sector as a whole. One of the main priorities despite the financial crisis.

The meeting discussed the health situation in the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health regularly sends shipments of drugs to its warehouse in the Gaza Strip, noting that drugs in general are purchased under a centralized bidding call, depending on the needs of the local government. health centers in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Minister of Health added that no drug clbades in our Gaza Strip centers were available in the West Bank, stressing that the Ministry did not exercise any control or supervision over how to distribute the drugs sent to the Gaza Strip after their arrival.

In this context, Al-Kila and the UN Deputy Special Coordinator on the need to activate drug control mechanisms entering the Gaza Strip in coordination with the Ministry of Health to ensure optimal access to centers and then to the patients who need them.

Dr. Al-Kila The Palestinian government and the Ministry of Health have refused to set up a field hospital near the Erez checkpoint without coordinating with the Ministry of Health, stressing that this was part of the Agreement of the century and plan to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank.

The health minister said: "If the goal of the establishment of this hospital was humanitarian, the first is to support and develop the hospitals of the Gaza Strip".

And asked d. Mr. McGoldrick sent a message to all concerned that the Palestinian government and the Ministry of Health had nothing to do with the hospital, stressing that international institutions should take a clear and opposing position. to this project, which aims to separate the West Bank from the Gaza Strip.