Brookesbca
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I don’t know if these words will truly reflect the scale of what is happening here, but the health situation has reached an unprecedented level of collapse. The healthcare system in Gaza is facing near total paralysis, with a severe and dangerous shortage of essential medicines and supplies. It is no longer just a “shortage,” but an almost complete absence of life saving drugs and tools. Even anesthesia has become extremely limited and is used only in emergency cases, forcing doctors into daily painful decisions. Medications for chronic diseases such as heart conditions, blood pressure, and diabetes are nearly unavailable, leaving patients without treatment. My grandmother went several times searching for medication and found nothing. Cancer drugs are also completely unavailable, along with many other essential medicines that have disappeared from hospitals and pharmacies. Hospitals are overcrowded with thousands of patients, many of whom cannot even be properly diagnosed due to the lack of equipment and tests. In this collapse, sudden deaths are being recorded without clear medical explanation in many cases, amid a severe inability to diagnose and follow up. Even imaging devices, surgical tools, and ventilators are in extreme shortage, directly endangering lives. Kidney patients, children, and the injured are facing an extremely harsh medical reality with almost no resources. According to the Ministry of Health, more than 280 types of medicines and medical supplies have been blocked from entering, reflecting the scale of the catastrophe affecting the health system. This is not a temporary crisis… it is a full collapse of a basic right to life, where treatment becomes almost impossible and survival turns into a daily struggle.














