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Committee: 1,000 patients need treatment abroad
GAZA, (PIC)-- The committee of relatives of
patients in the Gaza Strip has said that the health conditions of those
patients, who obtained medical permits to travel abroad for treatment, were
worsening as a result of inability to travel.
It said that the number of patients had
exceeded 1,000 and the number is expected to increase as the Rafah border
terminal with Egypt was still shut down while the Israeli occupation authority
deliberately delays their entry into Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 for
treatment.
The committee appealed to the Red Cross and
other concerned parties to help in facilitating travel of those patients before
they join the list of victims of the siege that reached 271 patients so far.
The free world should help alleviate the
suffering of those patients and save them from ultimate death, the committee
concluded.
18-12-2008 |
