GAZA CITY: Young Palestinians launched a volunteer initiative on Sunday to clean the Al-Shifa medical complex west of Gaza City and to partially restart its operations by preparing the kidney dialysis department.
“The hospital has suffered significant damage, but the initiative will work on preparing, cleaning and sterilising it to restart its operation, especially the kidney dialysis department,” Anadolu Agency quoted the director-general of administrative affairs at the Ministry of Health in Gaza Mahmoud Hammad as saying.
Hammad said there are “patients in Gaza who will face inevitable death if they do not undergo kidney dialysis sessions.”
He pointed to the extensive destruction of all facilities at the Al-Shifa medical complex, saying that every facility has incurred damage to devices and equipment.
Meanwhile, The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said 100 aid trucks entered the northern regions of the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
PRCS said the aid trucks were brought into Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip, containing food, water, baby milk, and blankets.
Earlier on Sunday, the PRCS announced that it had sent another aid convoy consisting of 50 trucks from Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip towards Gaza City and its northern areas.
The convoy was loaded with relief and food supplies, drinking water, medicines and emergency supplies.
A four-day humanitarian pause mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States went into effect on Friday, temporarily halting Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip. – BERNAMA-ANADOLU
