SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Sulaimani emergency ambulances have been out of service for days due to fuel shortage for the vehicles, a local health official on Sunday said.
It’s been three days since ambulances suspended their operations due to the government’s failure to supply them with fuel, according to Saman Nadr, the Director of Sulaimani emergency.
The officials did not conceal that they have been lately supplied with 1000 liters of gasoline for the emergency ambulances and vehicles, however, the provided amount will only last for 10 days, he said.
As a result, ambulances are only available for certain emergency cases, according to the official’s words.
For two years, Sulaimani province is struggling with a crisis that grasped its health sector in the overall province’s public hospitals.
Sulaimani Health Directorate suffers a lack of medicine as well as medical equipment with now escalated to the shortage of gasoline for ambulances.
The Kurdistan Region Ministry of Health has repeatedly pledged to resolve the issue but so far the crisis continues and keeps growing, engulfing all public hospitals.
The province officials have repeatedly warned of the risky effect of the ongoing health crisis, renewing warnings of deterioration of the situation to the extent that threats the locals’ lives.
Health officials have blamed the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for not taking serious attempts to tackle the crisis.
