2023-11-11 00:54:00
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The health system in the Gaza Strip is “on its knees and half of its 36 hospitals do not function at all,” the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned this Friday before the Council of UN Security.
“Hospital hallways packed with the wounded, sick and dying, morgues overflowing, offices without anesthesia, tens of thousands of people sheltering in hospitals,” described the Ethiopian public health researcher.
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Tedros reported “more than 250 attacks” against health facilities in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the war on October 7, following the unprecedented offensive launched by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Israel that left 1,200 dead, according to the correction he made. this Friday Israel from the previous figure of 1,400.
“I visited Al Shifa hospital in Gaza five years ago, in 2018 and even then the conditions for health workers were extremely difficult, but now they are impossible,” the official warned, quoted by the AFP and Europa Press news agencies.
Tedros reported “more than 250 attacks” against health facilities in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the war on October 7, following the unprecedented offensive launched by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Israel that left 1,200 dead, according to the correction he made. this Friday Israel from the previous figure of 1,400
Last week there were five attacks on five hospitals in a single day, while in the last 48 hours at least four were out of service, he added.
“As we speak, there are reports that attacks are taking place in Al Shifa hospital and Rantisi hospital,” he added.
Photo: AFP.
On the other hand, he predicted that “the consequences for the mental health” of the survivors and victims of the armed conflict “will last for a long time.”
At the end of his speech, he said he was “concerned” about the health and well-being of the 240 hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, among them about twenty Argentine nationals, “many of whom are elderly people, children and people with urgent medical needs.
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