Amal Allam wrote Tuesday, October 24, 2023 03:24 PM confirmed Global Health Organization It remains unable to distribute essential life-saving health supplies delivered via the Rafah land port into Gaza on 21 and 22 October to the main referral hospitals in northern Gaza due to ongoing hostilities and lack of security guarantees.
The organization’s spokesman, Tariq Jasarevic, said – in a press conference today, Tuesday, via video – that the organization is waiting for larger supplies and the most important health centers in Gaza, such as Al-Shifa Hospital, where the bed occupancy rate is already close to 150%, and the Turkish hospital, which is the main provider of services for cancer patients, calling Call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire so that these supplies can be safely delivered throughout the region.
Jasarevic pointed out that some of the World Health Organization’s medicines and health supplies have already been delivered to three main hospitals in southern Gaza, as well as to the Palestine Red Crescent Society for distribution to its health facilities and ambulance crews, explaining that the World Health Organization teams that are delivering the supplies say that health workers They were so relieved to replenish supplies that they took boxes of medicine off the trucks and transported them directly to operating rooms where doctors performed surgeries without anesthesia or other basic surgical supplies.
The spokesman stressed that there is an urgent need for fuel, as health facilities that are still operating inside the Gaza Strip are facing a severe shortage of fuel to operate generators, leaving thousands of vulnerable patients facing death or medical complications if vital services are forced to stop working due to a lack of electricity, among other things. These are 1,000 patients who depend on dialysis, 130 premature babies who require a range of care, patients in intensive care or needing surgery, and who depend on a stable and uninterrupted supply of electricity to survive.
The spokesman noted that the organization, with the support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), yesterday delivered 34,000 liters of fuel to four main hospitals in southern Gaza and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to continue ambulance services. He said, however, that this was only enough to keep cars running. Ambulance and vital hospital functions operate for just over 24 hours
2023-10-24 12:24:00
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