The situation in Gaza’s hospitals is dramatic, where according to World Health Organizationdoctors are forced to perform operations and even amputations without anesthesia as reported by CNN.
“Nothing justifies the horrors that civilians in Gaza are going through,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmaier said during a press conference in Geneva yesterday, stressing their “urgent need for water, fuel, food and safe access to healthcare for to survive”.
Lindmaier reiterated UN calls for “unimpeded and safe access” for some 500 aid trucks the day. He also said that at least 16 health workers have been killed while on duty, stressing that any attacks on health care are prohibited by international humanitarian law.
The WHO is pushing for the most vulnerable among chronic sufferers to be allowed out of Gaza for treatment, Reuters reports. Other countries have offered to treat patients, including Egypt, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. “In previous wars, access was closed for a day or two, but then patients could return. This is the first time there has been such a comprehensive curfew and the patients of Gaza cannot cope,” said Osama Kaduni, a supervisor at Makassed Hospital.
Dead MSF worker
At the same time, the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) announced yesterday the death of its worker in the Gaza Strip, along with other members of his family, during an Israeli bombardment in the Ash Shati refugee camp.
During a press conference yesterday Tuesday in Paris, at the headquarters of Doctors Without Borders, their director Claire Magon he emphasized that the medical and nursing staff are powerless and that the population is suffering. He even spoke of “a million dead” and a “critical and urgent need for a ceasefire”.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 192 members of health personnel have lost their lives after war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7.
Source: News Beast
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