{"id":122677,"date":"2017-11-06T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=122677"},"modified":"2017-11-09T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:46:32","slug":"shortage-of-medical-supplies-in-gaza-continues-to-deteriorate-highlights-of-the-sgs-spokespersons-briefing","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/shortage-of-medical-supplies-in-gaza-continues-to-deteriorate-highlights-of-the-sgs-spokespersons-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of Medical Supplies in Gaza Continues to Deteriorate &#8211; Highlights of the SG&#8217;s Spokesperson&#8217;s Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FARHAN HAQ,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>DEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL ANT\u00d3NIO GUTERRES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MONDAY, 06 NOVEMBER 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES IN GAZA CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE &#8211; U.N. AGENCY<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The shortage of essential drugs and medical supplies in Gaza continues to deteriorate, severely impeding the provision of health care, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (<a href=\"http:\/\/unocha.org\/\">OCHA<\/a>). In October, some 130 critical medical items and drugs, including 50 items for medical surgeries, have reached zero-stock level. The drug shortage is worsening with 45 per cent of the total list of critical items at zero level, a rise from 41 per cent recorded in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reconciliation agreement signed in October and the Government of National Consensus assuming authority over Gaza, the situation has not improved. The ±¬ÁÏÍø hopes that the recently signed reconciliation may lead to alleviating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FARHAN HAQ, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL ANT\u00d3NIO GUTERRES MONDAY, 06 NOVEMBER 2017 \/&#8230; SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES IN GAZA CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE &#8211; U.N. AGENCY The shortage of essential drugs and medical supplies in Gaza continues to deteriorate, severely impeding the provision of health care, according to the Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/shortage-of-medical-supplies-in-gaza-continues-to-deteriorate-highlights-of-the-sgs-spokespersons-briefing\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2197,2573],"document-source":[2169,5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,4317,2533,2349,3157],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-122677","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-briefing","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-governance","document-subject-health","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-reconciliation","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/122677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/122677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=122677"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=122677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}