The Ministry of Health in Gaza warned, on Saturday, of a dangerous shortage of blood units in the sector’s hospitals, amid a decline in donation campaigns due to the outbreak of malnutrition caused by the Israeli starvation policy, urgently appearing to the authorities concerned with intervention and strengthening the assets of blood units.
The ministry said in a statement: “Blood banks in hospitals suffer from severe and dangerous shortage of blood units and its components.”
And she continued: “The quality of serious injuries that reach hospitals require additional blood units to save life.”
She pointed out that the daily need of blood units and its components is more than 350 units, pointing to the decline in sources of strengthening the balance of blood units and its components, including community donation campaigns due to the spread of famine and malnutrition.
The Ministry called on all the concerned authorities to intervene to enhance the balance of blood units and its components in the sector’s hospitals.
And repeatedly, the Ministry made calls that warned of the danger of the severe shortage of blood units on the lives of Palestinian patients and wounded, amid the escalation of Israeli attacks that result in hundreds of wounded people who need blood units.
With the spread of famine, many Palestinians were unable to donate blood due to malnutrition, as they were the last source to obtain these units amid the intensification of the Israeli siege.
In addition to the large deficit in the blood units, the health sector in Gaza is suffering from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, due to the almost complete Israeli closure of the crossings since last March in front of relief, humanitarian and medical aid.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza that includes killing, starvation, destruction and hybrid, ignoring international calls and orders to the International Court of Justice to stop it.
This extermination left 64,803 martyrs, 164,64 and 264 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and the famine that ranked the lives of 420 Palestinians, including 145 children.