The rebel opposition in Libya says a medical crisis is looming in the east of the country, with hospitals in Benghazi running short of drugs and medical supplies.
The rebels' health minister Dr Nagi Barakat, says most emergency aid donated from abroad goes straight to the frontline.
He told the BBC if a new offensive breaks out, hospitals will face a major crisis.
Dr Barakat, a Libyan doctor who returned from London to take up the post of health minister in the rebels' interim government, says the situation is critical.
The list of 150 items needed urgently include surgical gloves and gauze as well as an array of drugs needed for cancer and cardiac patients and, critically, in the intensive care units where stocks of anaesthetics are failing.
