The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that the hospitals of the Gaza Strip received – today, Monday – patients with serious burns that had not been previously sustained, and that medical teams were unable to deal with them, which, in his estimation, indicates that the Israeli occupation forces are using new weapons.
He explained in his interview with Al Jazeera that these weapons melt the skin of those infected with them, and there is no treatment for them in the Gaza Strip, pointing out that international organizations have been contacted to find out the nature of the weapons used to cause these burns, and the necessity of finding treatment solutions for them.
Al-Qudra stressed that the Gaza Strip’s hospitals will not be able to continue operating for more than 48 hours if they are not provided with the necessary fuel and medicine after they soon run out.
He added that if fuel is not provided in the coming hours, the sector will lose many patient lives, pointing out that hospitals are also suffering from a severe shortage of personnel, medicines, and medical supplies.
He pointed out that the increasing number of wounded and injured people arriving to hospitals around the clock has led to a state of severe overcrowding, as they sleep on the floor in the absence of clinical and therapeutic facilities, and the absence of the most basic necessary requirements.
He explained that the failure to provide sufficient fuel to the Gaza Strip’s hospitals would prompt them, within hours, to divert all health services towards life-saving case services, and that medical aid must enter in accordance with the priorities of the Ministry of Health and the lists it sent to international organizations.
In a related context, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned. The danger of death threatens about 120 newborn “premature” babies who are lying in incubators in hospitals in the Gaza Strip, as the fuel needed to operate the generators is about to run out.
One of the doctors at Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, said that most of the premature babies may face certain death in light of the power outage and severe fuel shortage.
He explained that the equipment in the premature infants department depends entirely on electricity, such as incubators, artificial respiration, giving solutions, monitoring the body’s organs, and generating oxygen. He pointed out that there is a severe shortage of medicines and treatments, including antibiotics and intravenous solutions that were directed to the wounded, as well as a lack of tools and sterilization.
He pointed out that most of the nursery children are agricultural children, and their families have been waiting for them for more than 10 years, noting that there is an acute shortage of milk for premature infants as well as regular infant formula.
The Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip claimed the lives of 5,087 martyrs, including 2,055 children, 1,119 women, and 217 elderly people, and injured more than 15,000 people.
2023-10-23 21:01:02
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