Worth Euro 220,000
CARE and the Government of Germany Send Emergency Medical Assistance to the Gaza Strip


Translated from Al-Quds Newspaper
Friday, 30 May 208
Page 4

Ramallah. DPA. CARE International, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry of Germany, started sending the first shipment of emergency medical assistance to the Gaza Strip, with Euro 220,000.

The shipment is likely to arrive in Gaza on Monday, and will be completed by the end of June for the benefit of 70,000 patients; as part of an assistance package worth Euro 2,000,000.

Dr. Ayman Shuaibi, CARE’s Field Operations Manager, said the assistance package consists of 34 types of basic medicines for the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases and cancer, in addition to 37 types of medical supplies not available in the Gaza Strip.

The medical shipment will support the warehouse of the Ministry of Health, and seven hospitals: Al-Shifa, Al-Nasr, Kamal Adwan, Beit Hanoun, Al-Aqsa, Abu Yusef Al-Najjar, and Gaza European Hospital.

In a press conference in Ramallah yesterday, Gudrun Isphording, Deputy Head of the Representative Office of Germany, said she is hoping the medicine will ease even a little bit the suffering and negation in the Gaza Strip, caused by the tremendous shortage in medical supplies and the difficulties encountered by the health sector under siege. Isphording spoke about the cooperation taking place between the German Representative Office and the Ministry of Health, in order to deliver the medical shipment.

Omar Al-Nasr, Director General of Public Relations in the Ministry of Health, said the Ministry is keen to deliver medical assistance to Gaza through donor countries or from the Ministry itself.