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No Aid = Healthcare Woes

The fact that the West has, in effect, determined to refuse any aid to the Palestinian Authority because it is Hamas-dominated, is having dire consequences for healthcare in Gaza.

How the cutting off of aid is thought to either be humanitarian or lead to something concrete as far as the PA is concerned, is hard to fathom. Unquestionably, the PA needs to reign in its own people and stop the lawlessness which exists in Gaza and the West Bank.

As the New York Times reports today:

"A recent internal report by the World Health Organization, provided to The New York Times, portrays a crisis that is bound to worsen as the economic siege of the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority continues. The report forecasts a "rapid decline of the public health system towards a possible collapse" and "no access or limited access to preventive programs" like immunization for a large part of the population.

According to another report, by Physicians for Human Rights/Israel, the Palestinian Authority provides 64.5 percent of general health needs, 77 percent of emergency hospital treatment and 76 percent of the needs of women and midwives. It also pays for the treatment in Israel and abroad of many difficult cases like those in pediatric oncology and pediatric heart operations, as well as various cancer and orthopedic treatments."

Read the complete NYT article [here] and see what a dire healthcare situation has already been created in Gaza - and destined to get worse.

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