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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					11/11/2010 &#8211; 10:24 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; Amid plummeting medical  conditions in the Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry warned  Wednesday that around 80 basic drugs have become out of stock.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Dr. Muneer Al-Bursh, the ministry’s  pharmaceutical director wrote to the media: The most important of these  drugs are those used in the nursery department, surgical and  laparoscopic operations, intensive care, orthopedic surgery, drugs used  for anesthesia or respiration, ECG papers, childbirth, in addition to  stitching thread for child birth and eye surgery, and plaster in its  varying sizes.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Dr. Bursh called on the health ministry in  Ramallah to send necessary medical supplies to the Gaza Strip being  kept in Ramallah’s medical storage.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The medical official underscored that Gaza  has been suffering for the past four years an unjust blockade that has  had a devastating impact on all aspects of life. Israeli forces have  prevented humanitarian aid from entering the region.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related context, Gaza’s Ministry of  Public Works and Housing said the rising population in the strip has  produced a need for 100,000 new residential units</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Destruction resulting from Israeli  invasions and the occupational government’s blockade of building  materials has also contributed to the crisis.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Housing Minister Yousef Al Mansi said the  ministry has a plan to construct 26,000 housing units that will cover 25  per cent of the deficit in Gaza.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Speaking on the areas capsized in the  latest Israeli war on the strip, Mansi said: 1,200 houses have been  restored and their residents returned to them.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Works are underway to restore and rebuild 180 residential units with funding from charitable organizations, he added.</p>
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