Gaza (QNN)- Gaza’s health system continues to collapse even weeks after the ceasefire started. Hospitals stand without equipment. Medicine stocks reach zero. Patients die while they wait for treatment. Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, reveals this grim reality. He says the health system no longer resembles a functioning structure. Destroyed walls and empty operating rooms show the massive damage. In an interview on Al Jazeera, he describes Gaza’s situation as a “collapsed infrastructure” with a severe shortage of essential supplies. Al-Bursh reports that shortages of basic medicines reached 84%. Forty percent of emergency medicines ran out completely for the first time in the ministry’s history. Medical supplies face an unprecedented 71% deficit. Even simple items like gauze disappeared. IV fluids will last only one month. This makes primary care almost impossible. Fuel and communications remain cut. Most laboratories stopped working. Aid remains limited. Only two out of five weekly aid trucks reach the Ministry of Health. International organizations take the rest. Al-Bursh says this quantity “means nothing” compared to Gaza’s needs. The shortage hits cancer patients hard. Cancer medicines face a 71% deficit. Ninety percent of orthopedic surgery supplies vanished. Thousands of injured people now request medical transfer outside Gaza because basic surgical tools no longer exist. Al-Bursh shares alarming data. About 82% of infants under one year suffer from anemia. He says this number exposes the depth of the humanitarian disaster and contradicts Israeli claims about food access. More than 18,000 people applied for medical travel. They include 7,000 wounded individuals and 5,000 children, along with cancer patients and urgent surgical cases. But the crossing remains closed. Their situation grows worse every day. He says Israel presents a misleading picture by letting consumer goods enter Gaza while blocking medical devices and essential supplies. This policy deepens the health crisis. Al-Bursh lists urgent needs. Emergency and surgical medicines face a 54% shortage. Medical supplies suffer a 71% deficit. The ministry also needs field hospitals and spare parts to repair damaged devices. He believes Gaza’s medical teams can rebuild the system once supplies enter and crossings open. He points to their ability to run emergency rooms without electricity and perform surgeries without proper equipment during the war. Al-Bursh outlines the steps needed for recovery: open the crossings, ensure the flow of medicines and supplies, allow fuel in, and bring medical devices and field hospitals. Without these steps, he says death becomes “the easiest thing people face.” He reveals that 1,000 patients died while waiting for medical transfer. They had official documents proving their need for treatment abroad. He calls this one of the most dangerous signs of the health system’s collapse. He adds another tragic number. Six thousand people lost limbs and now need physical and psychological rehabilitation. They require prosthetics and wheelchairs. He warns that this file is “extremely dangerous” in the absence of resources. Psychological trauma worsens their suffering. Even basic painkillers do not exist. He stresses that the world watches the tragedy and does nothing. Al-Bursh concludes that Gaza faces a complete health collapse. Rebuilding the sector depends on opening the crossings and allowing medical and humanitarian aid to flow. Until that happens, thousands of patients in Gaza remain on the edge of death every single day.