Medical equipment is used for the specific purposes of diagnosis and treatment of disease or rehabilitation following disease or injury; it can be used either alone or in combination with any accessory, consumable or other piece of medical equipment. Medical equipment excludes implantable, disposable or single-use medical devices., Responding to the immediate health needs of the thousands of people injured in the strong earthquakes that rocked Myanmar on 28 March, the World Health Organization has provided nearly 3 tonnes of medical supplies to hospitals in the worst hit Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay. The supplies , which contain trauma kits and multipurpose tents, have reached a 1000-bed hospital in Nay Pyi Taw and will soon , Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter. Four major hospitals in Gaza (Kamal Adwan Hospital, Indonesia Hospital, Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics, and European Gaza Hospital) have had to suspend medical , Countries face a range of obstacles to achieving this, including rising prices for new medicines; shortages and stock outs of essential medicines, especially for noncommunicable diseases, and the growing problem of substandard and falsified medical products entering the global supply chain., Professionalizing WHO's supply chain WHO / Yoshi Shimizu Dr Maja Al Baalkaki, a Logistics Officer with the World Health Organization, enters the temperature-controlled section of the organization's warehouse to inspect medical supplies at the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates., WHO is urgently working to procure medical supplies locally to meet demand, and preparing supplies from its Global Medical Logistics Hub in Dubai, UAE. WHO is also gravely concerned about the health and well-being of hostages, including elderly civilians, seized from Israel by Hamas in attacks on 7 October..