GENEVA, May 26, 2025 (WAFA) – The majority of supplies of medical equipment have run out, while 42% of basic medicines including pain killers are out of stock, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
"We are at stock zero of close to 64% of medical equipment and stock zero of 43% of essential medicines and 42% of vaccines," Hanan Balkhy, the WHO's Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told reporters in Geneva.
Balkhy added that the WHO has 51 aid trucks waiting on the Gaza border that have not yet had clearance to enter the Gaza Strip.
"Can you imagine a surgeon (fixing) a broken bone with no anaesthesia? IV fluids, needles, bandages - they do not exist in the quantities that are required," she said, adding that basic medications such as antibiotics, pain killers and drugs for chronic diseases were in short supply.
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