<article data-history-node-id="421061" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-face-unprecedented-medicine-shortages-health-ministry" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-face-unprecedented-medicine-shortages-health-ministry" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza hospitals face 'unprecedented' medicine shortages, health ministry warns</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hospitals and medical centres in Gaza are facing “dangerous and unprecedented” shortages of essential medicines as Israel’s blockade continues,&nbsp;Gaza’s Health Ministry warned, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>The ministry said 37 percent of essential drugs and 59 percent of medical supplies are completely out of stock, along with 54 percent of cancer and blood disease medications.</p> <p>Emergency, surgery, and intensive care units are operating with severely depleted life-saving treatments. Around 80,000 diabetic patients and 110,000 with high blood pressure are no longer receiving care.</p> <p>The ministry said Israel's siege that cut off Gaza from food, fuel and medicine, among other vital supplies,&nbsp;is worsening the crisis and creating “catastrophic” challenges for treating patients and the wounded.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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