Video .. 20 thousand doses of "Sputnik" arrived in Gaza with Emirati support

In a move that embodies the images of human and moral solidarity, a medical shipment with a generous donation from the United Arab Emirates arrived in the Gaza Strip, containing 20,000 Russian doses of "Sputnik" vaccine, via the Rafah land crossing, last Sunday evening.

The former Palestinian Minister of Health and the medical file official in the Islamic National Committee for Social Solidarity, Jawad Al-Tibi, indicates that this shipment is the first in a series of incoming shipments funded by the United Arab Emirates and its route to the Gaza Strip, from the city of Abu Dhabi, through the city of Cairo. Access to the besieged sector.

Video .. 20 thousand "Sputnik" doses arrived in Gaza with Emirati support # Emirates_Today pic.twitter.com/IhCFpLrS2F

- Emirates Today (@emaratalyoum) February 23, 2021

In an interview with Emirates Today, Al-Tibi explains that the Russian vaccine shipment covers staff of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, doctors who deal with the injured and medical devices, and also meets the needs of critical cases and chronic diseases, pointing out that the second batch will cover the elderly and different age groups in Gaza.

For his part, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Sufyan Abu Zaida, told Emirates Today, while receiving the vaccine shipment, “The generous support provided by the United Arab Emirates by donating the Coronavirus vaccine is a very important precedent for the relief of the people of the sector, in light of the Rickety healthy, and poor potential.

He pointed out that the Russian vaccine shipment gives a safety net to the health sector and its workers, in the face of the Corona virus.

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