#Zero stock

"Life in Gaza is not easy. In some ways it is impossible."

Wafa Kanan, MAP’s Project Officer in Gaza, describes MAP’s emergency response. She agrees with the description of the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development in Palestine, Jamie McGoldrick, that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is “a crisis on top of a catastrophe”.

Gaza cancer patients’ lives endangered as chemotherapy stocks dwindle

Medicine shortages and growing barriers to movement out of Gaza are increasingly putting the lives of cancer patients at risk. This week Al Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, which provides oncology services, reported that 75% of their chemotherapy drug items had reached ‘zero stock’ levels.

Gaza health crisis deepens as 33 percent of medicines at ‘zero stock’

The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza has this week announced that 33% of essential medicines and 31% of medical disposables are at ‘zero stock’, meaning that less than a month’s supply is available on shelves.