THE Health Ministry is ready and has identified the medical aid team to be deployed to the Gaza Strip but it hasn’t received the green light due to the current war situation.

It added that the team’s deployment will be made through the cooperation of the Foreign Ministry and other public agencies as well as coordination by the International Red Crescent Movement.

“The medical team will be exposed to appropriate preparatory training as it will be involved in treating war victims,” it said in a statement today.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry said the third delivery of consumables and medicines will be made soon.

The first medical aid was sent on November 3 and the second on November 11, with each involving 20 tonnes.

According to the ministry, the provision of medical aid is made through collaboration with non-governmental organisations and the Foreign Ministry.

The assistance includes consumables like syringe pumps, sutures, intravenous cannula, dressings and bandages, neurosurgery and surgical trauma services as well as equipment like medical beds and suitable medicines.

The ministry said these additional facilities are aimed at meeting the urgent and much-needed service requirements in Gaza.

The ministry also stressed that the bombing of hospitals is an act that violates human rights as well as contradicts the Geneva Conventions.

It said such actions must be stopped to allow hospitals that are still operating to continue providing medical care.

The ministry also said based on information from Gaza-Medics Worldwide, of the 35 hospitals in the Gaza Strip, one-third have been destroyed, thus the need to repair and improve other medical service facilities in the hospitals that are still operating. – Bernama, November 13, 2023.