The general director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, June 10 that the Al-Amal hospital in Gaza was “practically out of service” due to the “intensification of nearby hostilities.”
“Access to the hospital is obstructed, which prevents new patients from receiving care and leading to more deaths that could have been avoided,” said Who Head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the social network X.
“The hospital still has patients who need attention, but do not accept new ones,” he adds.
A single hospital “with an intensive care unit”
According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, two emergency medical teams, one national and the other international, “still do everything possible to serve patients who are still present with the small medical team that remains in the spot.”
“With the closure of Al-Amal, Nasser’s medical complex is now the only hospital with an intensive care unit in Khan Younès”, a city in the south of the Palestinian territory, says the head of the WHO.
On June 5, WHO explained that the Al-Nanser and Al-Aal hospitals operated beyond their abilities, while the injured continued to go mass. The organization had also reported a “serious shortage” Medical medicines and equipment After two months of total blockade.
After twenty months of a devastating war, caused by the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023 in Israel, the small Palestinian territory experienced one of the most serious humanitarian crises in the world, with a hungry population and exhausted by bombardments and forced trips
Source: BFM TV
