[Iran Press TV Latest] A report says that about 22% of the medications donated to the Hamas health ministry were either expired, refined or unfit for consumption.
| A mark of the donors' esteem. |
Basim Na'im, Palestinian minister of health, made the comments on Sunday, while attending a workshop on reconstructing the health facilities in the Gaza Strip.
He explained that certain medications have become abundant, while others remained rare due to the donors' inappropriate selection. One report says that a few months ago, the Palestinian customs officers had to dispose of medicines unsafe for human consumption in the West Bank city of Beit-Lahm (Bethlehem). Na'im did not say when the bad medicine had arrived or where they had come from.
He pointed out that the Union of Arab Physicians began a distance-training program for Gazans who work in the health sector. The health minister noted that Dr. Muhammad At-Tawil from Qatar had announced that his country's willingness to host a conference for training health sector workers in Gaza. |