Around 600 Palestinian patients deprived from surgery

The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip said Sunday that around 600 Palestinians patients were deprived from surgery procedures due to strike of cleaning companies working in hospitals.
The ministry launched an ethical and a humanitarian campaign to clean hospitals in Gaza by all administrative staff in order to maintain a clean healthy environment and provide a suitable environment for medical staff so that they be able to provide services for patients, spokesman for the ministry Ashraf Al-Qadra said in a statement.
The spokesman appealed to the Palestinian government, and local, regional and international institutions to bear responsibilities and an end the crisis surrounding hospitals.
Last Wednesday, cleaning companies, a subsidiary of the health sector in Gaza Strip, announced an open-ended strike in protests for not getting paid over the past six months.
They were hired by the previous government in Gaza, while the new unity government is reassessing the names of employees who were appointed by the previous government.