RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Ministry of Health today stated that the number of hemophilia patients in Palestine reached 562, including 178 patients in the Gaza Strip, and 384 patients in the West Bank.
This came in a statement on the occasion of the International Day for Hemophilia and Hemophilia, which the world celebrates on the seventeenth of April every year.
This day comes under the slogan “Access to Treatment for All – Prevention of Bleeding as a Global Standard of Care”, highlighting patients’ suffering and needs and raising the level of community awareness about hemophilia.
The Director General of Supportive Medical Services at the Ministry of Health, Osama Al-Najjar said that the suffering of patients with hemophilia and bleeding has doubled in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli brutal aggression and the occupation’s destruction of the infrastructure in the health sector.
He added that the Ministry of Health worked to send a shipment of medicines and treatments through the Italian Cooperatio
n Foundation via the Palestinian Red Crescent.
He added that the destruction of the infrastructure in health and medical centers in the Gaza Strip deprived patients of obtaining the necessary medical care.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA