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400 Gazan patients facing death due to shortage in dialysis solution
By The Palestinian Information Center
Gaza office
August 25, 2009
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip has appealed to human rights groups and health institutions to immediately send chemical solutions necessary to operate dialysis machines.

The ministry in a statement on Monday called for allowing entry of all necessary medicines to save patients who are facing death any minute due to shortage in vital medication.

It noted that more than 400 patients were at risk of death at ICU wards especially kidney patients.

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is deliberately stalling in allowing entry of necessary medical equipment and medicine into the besieged Strip, the ministry charged.

It asked all free and honorable people of the world to act immediately to end this `savage annihilation` of the Strip`s patients.

The ministry urged all those concerned to pressure the IOA to enable hundreds of patients to leave the Strip for treatment abroad.

For his part, the director general of the electricity distribution company in Gaza Suhail Skeik has warned of the consequences of repeated power outage on the company`s turbines.

He said that the Strip was suffering from 30% shortage in electricity needs, which forced the company to cut off electricity five times weekly which in turn badly affected those turbines.

He attributed the shortage to the IOA reduced supply of fuel necessary to operate the sole power generation station in Gaza.

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