DayofPal– As the world celebrates World Health Day, the Gaza Strip stands as a harrowing symbol of medical collapse and humanitarian catastrophe. In Gaza, World Health Day 2025 is a day of mourning and a desperate plea for help.
In a powerful and urgent statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has issued a start warning of Gaza’s life under genocide and siege, where a population crushed by war, stripped of its most basic medical rights.
Since the start of the ongoing war of annihilation, over 50,752 people have been killed and 115,000 wounded. The numbers, already staggering, continue to rise as airstrikes and blockades deepen the humanitarian disaster.
The ministry reveals that Gaza’s hospitals are running dry. 37% of essential medications and 59% of critical medical supplies are completely out of stock. Surgical wards, ICUs, and emergency rooms are stretched to breaking point, with life-saving drugs now a rarity.
With most hospital infrastructure damaged, vital departments now rely solely on generators that teeter on the edge of failure due to a lack of fuel, spare parts, and repeated bombings.
The destruction of diagnostic imaging devices, CT scanners and MRIs, has left thousands of patients, many critically wounded, without proper evaluation or treatment.
The patients and wounded are also left to face uncertainty with 54% of cancer and blood disease medications having vanished from pharmacy shelves, and treatment protocols having been halted, leaving vulnerable patients in grave danger.
The healthcare has been denied to mothers and children, the minister uncovered as about 40% of primary care medicines and 51% of medications for maternal and child health are now unavailable, threatening the most basic healthcare services for families.
With the closure of the Rafah crossing, 13,000 patients and wounded are now cut off from specialized care outside the Strip, effectively turning Gaza into an open-air hospital without equipment.
The blockade on food and medical supplies has also created a ticking nutritional time bomb. Over 2 million people, particularly children, are at risk of malnutrition and anemia.
Damaged water infrastructure is compounding the crisis, spreading diarrhea, skin diseases, and a host of environmental health threats.
This leaves an entire generation at risk as 42% of essential child vaccines are unavailable. The Israeli occupation has blocked the entry of polio vaccines, threatening to undo seven months of disease control efforts.
Emergency response teams are not spared; 1,300 medics and aid workers have been killed while trying to save lives on the frontlines of destruction.
The Ministry’s issued a cry for urgent global action, emphasizing that Gaza health system is suffocating under siege and bombardment. Healthcare workers are overwhelmed, patients are dying, and the silence of the international community grows heavier by the day.
“These are not just statistics. These are lives, futures, families,” the statement concludes. “We call on the world to act now—to lift the blockade, allow the flow of medical and humanitarian aid, and stop the targeting of healthcare. Time is running out.”
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