Gaza - Saba:
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, today, Sunday, called for immediate and urgent measures to save lives and carry out emergency medical evacuation of the wounded from the Strip.
In a press statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), Al-Bursh said that the humanitarian truce is not a time for silence, but rather to save those who are still alive. He added that under a temporary truce stifled by hesitation and international silence, the wounded cry for help, children suffer from hunger, and mothers collapse over the ruins of what remains of life.
He called for the urgent and immediate evacuation of critical cases with brain and spinal cord injuries, and wounded individuals who require complex operations needing technologies unavailable in Gaza, as well as patients whose lives are at risk if they are not transferred immediately for treatment.
Al-Bursh also called for the urgent entry of medical and food supplies such as therapeutic milk for children and infants, high-protein and high-calorie nutritional supplements (such as Ensure), concentrated glucose solutions (20% and 50%), ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF), intravenous antibiotics, and sources of protein: meat, eggs, dairy products, and sugar.
He stressed that this truce will mean nothing unless it turns into a real opportunity to save lives.