Three premature Palestinian babies recently died at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza due to a lack of electricity and fuel to run generators, a medical official at the health center said today.
hospital Use cooking oil instead of diesel To power the generators, it has already collected the bodies of 60 dead since last night and about 200 sick and injured under its care. an extreme situation, according to the director.
All this happens after 39 premature babies. A similar situation occurred in recent weeks at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where several people died because incubators were not supplied with electricity, during a siege by Israeli forces who held the hospital in custody until their evacuation. brought boundaries.
Among them are Al-Shifa. 31 babies were evacuated and 28 of them were transferred to Egypt to receive medical attention.
According to medical authorities, the situation in hospitals in Nordgas – including Kamal Radwan – is similar to what Al Shifa has experienced in recent weeks.
Both Indonesia’s Kamal Adwan and Al Auda, the three main health centers in the north, are under siege by troops and attacked, members of their medical teams say, warning that Israel is “targeting the forced displacement” of patients.
“We fear for the lives of those in Kamal Adwan, Al Auda and Indonesian hospitals,” said health authorities, who said an ambulance transporting patients to Kamal Adwan Hospital was recently attacked.
Israel says Hamas is hiding part of its underground network of tunnels and military infrastructure under and around hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al Shifa in Gaza City. Israeli officials say it has a military core.
Since the war almost began on October 7, thousands of displaced people have sought refuge in hospitals in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardments.
Most health centers are out of action or at the limit of their capacity due to the near-total Israeli blockade of access to food, drinking water, medical supplies or fuel, the latter being an important resource for supplying energy and electricity to generators in the Gaza Strip. . It is estimated that there is a lack of power or medical facilities. This has led to the deaths of many sick or injured patients admitted to hospital.
Source: La Neta Neta
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