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Indonesia sends surgical teams, medicines to Gaza Strip

Indonesia's humanitarian organisation handling health emergencies for victims of war, conflict, and natural disasters, Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), sent a surgical team and medicines to the Gaza Strip of Palestine to assist war victims.
Indonesia sends surgical teams, medicines to Gaza Strip ảnh 1Sarbini Abdul Murad, chairman of the MER-C Indonesia Presedium (Photo: Antara)

Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia's humanitarianorganisation handling health emergencies for victims of war, conflict, andnatural disasters, Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), sent a surgicalteam and medicines to the Gaza Strip of Palestine to assist war victims.

Chairman of the MER-C Indonesia Presidium Sarbini Abdul Murad said on May 18that MER-C sent a surgical team comprising five to six people to the Gaza Stripwith medicines and surgical instruments as Gaza has few medicines, lessinstruments and the doctors here are exhausted.

He noted that the surgical team being deployed comprises specialists in thefields of orthopedic repair, anesthetic surgery, general surgery, plasticsurgery, and nursing.

The team's members come from MER-C offices inregions, and will stay in Gaza from two to four weeks.

Several Indonesia-assisted facilities, including the Indonesian Hospital (RSI)in the Gaza Strip, were damaged during Israeli airstrikes.

The same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed the government willprovide a humanitarian support worth 500,000 USD for Palestine. The money willbe given to the nation’s capacity development and economic stimulus programmes throughthe International Committee of the Red Cross./.
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