A health worker in blue scrubs with a stethoscope around their neck

Donate Medical Supplies to Gaza

Not equipment. The consumables that run out every single week.

Ask a clinician in Gaza what they need and the answer is rarely a machine. It is gauze, sutures, antiseptic, gloves, saline, painkillers — the consumables that are used once and gone, and that a functioning health system replaces without anyone thinking about it.

These are unglamorous things to fundraise for. They are also the difference between a treatable wound and a fatal infection, and they are what our medical programme spends most of its money on.

This appeal funds consumables and running costs for mobile clinics, first-aid points and mother-and-newborn care.

What your donation buys

Taken from what our medical programme currently pays:

$25 — a mother-and-newborn care kit
$60 — stocks a first-aid point for a week
$150 — funds a day of mobile clinic consultations
$1,000 — helps supply an operating theatre with essential consumables

Why mobile clinics rather than buildings

Fixed facilities are damaged, overwhelmed, or in places people can no longer safely reach. A mobile clinic goes to where displaced families actually are, which changes month to month, and it can be redirected in a day when a route closes.

A clinic day costs $150 and sees a substantial number of patients — mostly infections, untreated chronic conditions, malnutrition and maternal care rather than the trauma cases that get reported.

Mother-and-newborn care, which gets least attention

Pregnancy and birth do not pause for an emergency, and they are where the health consequences of displacement show up fastest. Women are giving birth without prenatal care, in shelters, with no follow-up for either mother or baby.

A $25 kit covers the essentials for a safe delivery and the first days after it. It is the cheapest intervention we fund with the clearest life-or-death arithmetic behind it.

We are not short of skill. We are short of the box of things you open to use the skill.
— A clinician on our mobile clinic programme

Why we ask for money, not medicine

Donated medicines are usually the wrong thing: short-dated, mislabelled for the setting, in quantities nobody needs, and occupying clearance capacity that the right supplies need. Sorting and disposing of unusable donated medicine is a real cost that falls on the people you are trying to help.

Cash lets a clinical lead buy what is actually short this week, from the nearest source that has it.

Frequently asked questions

Can I donate medicines or equipment instead?

We would rather you didn't. Donated medicine is frequently short-dated or unsuited to the setting, arrives in the wrong quantities, and takes up crossing capacity. Disposing of what cannot be used costs money that comes out of the programme. Cash lets clinicians buy what is short this week.

Who decides what gets bought?

Our medical programme lead, working from stock levels and requests from the clinics and first-aid points themselves. Purchasing follows a shortage list that changes weekly, which is exactly why unrestricted funds are more useful here than funds tied to one item.

Can Zakat be given for medical aid?

Yes, where it funds treatment for patients from Zakat-eligible households — which in current conditions is the large majority. Mark your donation as Zakat and it is tracked separately and directed on that basis. It is not spent on clinic infrastructure serving everyone regardless of eligibility.