All hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the densest part of the health infrastructure of this enclave is located, have stopped working, with the exception of Al-Ahli Hospital, which houses 500 patients and despite the difficulties they can continue to admit more patients to record.
“All hospitals in Gaza City (North) and the northern Gaza Strip are out of service due to the lack of electricity, medical supplies, oxygen, food and water, in addition to bombings and clashes in the area,” the agency explained. of the UN Humanitarian Coordination in its daily report on the impact of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas on the civilian population.
The situation at Al-Shifa Hospital appeared to be at its worst in recent days, as it is the main hospital center in Gaza and was recently the scene of armed clashes that caused damage following Israeli bombardments.
According to the United Nations, 32 patients and three premature babies have died in Al Shifa in the past two days due to power outages and extremely poor conditions.
The latest information from this hospital shows that yesterday there were between 600 and 650 hospitalized patients, between 200 and 250 employees and 1,500 internally displaced persons, 36 babies were in incubators and patients requiring dialysis were in immediate danger of death.
The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that this would amount to a death sentence for the collapse of the entire healthcare system and that hospitals in the south would not. did not and still does not have the capacity to receive patients. evacuated.
At the same time, OCHA noted that Israel continues to appeal to residents of the north and pressure them to move south, which approximately 200,000 did last week, bringing the number of internally displaced persons in Gaza to over 1.7 million .
Source: La Neta Neta
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