Health: Ambulances are waiting to receive newborns from Gaza hospitals – Youm7

Ibrahim Hassan

Sunday, November 19, 2023 11:09 PM

Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar explained, in a phone call to the “Ninth” program with the journalist Youssef Al-Husseini, on Egyptian TV Channel One, that there are directives for the Ministry of Health to work on receiving premature babies from the Gaza Strip, adding: “The group of premature babies who are in Al-Shifa Hospital, we are preparing.” To receive them in Egypt in light of the inability of the Palestinian Hospital to provide them with health care, and there are directives to all state agencies to work to receive Palestinian children.”

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population continued: “There are ambulances equipped in front of the Rafah crossing, carrying mobile incubators, and they have been present for several days, waiting for the arrival of premature babies through the Palestinian Red Crescent, and places in Egyptian hospitals have been prepared to receive the babies.”