The World Health Organization revealed to Al-Hurra TV on Sunday the health status of the injured and premature infants in Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, noting that these premature infants “are in a very critical condition, and with them are also kidney patients and those with severe injuries.”
The organization’s spokeswoman, Margaret Harris, told Al-Hurra TV that the situation in Al-Shifa Hospital is “extremely tragic,” noting that “after the medical complex was the largest in Gaza, it has become out of service and in a state of collapse, without medicines, food supplies, or basic services.”
Harris also explained that “there are 291 patients in the hospital, including 32 premature newborns,” adding that the patients “if they remained in the hospital, they would die.”
She continued: “The children are in very critical conditions in intensive care… between life and death.” She also pointed out that there are “22 kidney patients who need dialysis to stay alive, and currently it is impossible to do so due to the power outage.”
She also noted that “there are also those who suffer from amputations and injuries in the abdomen or spine, and cannot move without medical assistance, all in the absence of clean water in the hospital, services, or antibiotics.”
It is noteworthy that later, Al-Hurra correspondent reported, quoting a medical source in the Gaza Strip, that “the process of transporting premature babies out of Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has begun,” without the source specifying the destination of these newborns.
This came after the health authorities in the Gaza Strip said, on Sunday, that a “UN team” would arrive at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, on a mission “to remove premature babies.”
Al-Hurra correspondent quoted the General Director of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zaqout, as saying, “A team from the World Health Organization will go to the Shifa Complex to remove 32 premature babies.”
“To remove premature babies.” The World Health Organization sends a team to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Health authorities in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday that a UN team will arrive at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza on a mission to remove premature babies.
Regarding the news of sending a medical team to transport the children from the hospital, she said: “They are one of the reasons that made us work to evaluate the situation, because the children are in a critical situation and their condition is difficult and in need of a number of experts, and we must work to evacuate them safely, and we consider this a necessity and a priority.” .
Regarding the process of transporting patients, especially children, from Al-Shifa Hospital, Harris said: “The main goal is to know what is required to evacuate the injured within 48 hours. Our goal will be to work to secure these injured and secure the ambulances and the convoy itself.”
The process of transporting the injured, once completed, will be to hospitals in the south of the Strip. In this regard, Harris explained: “But those hospitals are already crowded with patients, so the situation will be difficult.”
On Saturday, a team from the World Health Organization visited Al-Shifa Hospital to assess the situation, describing the largest medical complex in the besieged Strip as a “death zone,” explaining that there are “more than 300 people, including patients and medical care providers, still present there.”
“Death Zone”.. The World Health Organization visits Al-Shifa Hospital and reveals the number of people in it
The World Health Organization said in a statement that a humanitarian assessment team led by the World Health Organization visited Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, on Saturday, to assess the situation, describing the largest medical complex in the besieged Strip as a “death zone,” and that there were more than 300 people, including patients and caregivers. Medically, they are still there.
On a mission that the organization described as “high-risk,” the team included public health experts, logistical personnel, and security personnel from various United Nations departments.
The organization said, “Due to security risks, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, describing it as a death zone.”
Signs of bombing and shooting were clear. The organization’s statement said that the team “saw a mass grave at the entrance to the hospital, and was told that more than 80 people were buried there.”
The spark of war broke out on October 7, when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children. The movement also kidnapped about 240 hostages, including foreigners, and transferred them to the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, Israel has responded since that date with continuous bombing and ground incursions, which resulted in the deaths of more than 12,300 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to health authorities in the Palestinian Strip, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
2023-11-19 10:06:19
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