Foreign aid agencies have reported terrible conditions in the few hospitals still operating in the Gaza Strip. “We are seeing injuries mainly caused by explosions and shrapnel,” Nick Maynard, senior surgeon and clinical director of the Medical Emergency Team at Oxford University Hospital, said on Friday in a statement released by New York-based private charity International Rescue Committee ( IRC). York.
“Many adults, children and babies are admitted with traumatic amputations of arms and legs. We saw little children with the most horrific burns on their faces,” Maynard added.
Patients lie on the floor
Corridors, stairwells, reception areas, wards – patients lie on the floor in every square inch of the hospital, he said. Many are also severely malnourished.
A first emergency medical team from Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP/Britain) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is now deployed to a hospital in the Gaza Strip to care for the many victims of Israeli bombings, IRC reported.
“My heart breaks for the children in Gaza”
“The scenes in Gaza are shocking. “In the first few hours in the hospital, I treated a boy about a year old who had lost his right arm and leg in the bombing – on the ground because there were no stretchers available,” reported IRC pediatrician Seema Jilani. “Orphans and babies arrive with severe burns, in shock, shaking with fear and barely alive. My heart breaks for the children in Gaza,” the woman said.
More than 57,600 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7, according to the Islamist Hamas-controlled health authority. The number of deaths was estimated at more than 22,400. The Israeli army’s fight against Hamas also caused massive damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure such as hospitals.
Only 13 of the 36 hospitals remain intact
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced shortly after Christmas that only 13 of the original 36 hospitals were still partially functioning. They are completely overpopulated and have no fuel, medicine, anesthetics, food or drinking water.
In addition to the emergency medical teams, MAP and IRC would work together to provide hospitals in Gaza with essential medical supplies from Egypt through the Rafah crossing. On December 29, four trucks carrying medicines and other relief supplies reached the Gaza Strip. The material was distributed to hospitals in the southern and central Gaza Strip.
90 percent of children go hungry
After three months of war in the Gaza Strip, the situation for minors is also deteriorating, according to the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF. According to a survey at the end of December, 90 percent of all 1.1 million young people in the region were not fully supplied with nutrients. UNICEF: “Most families reported that their children received only cereals – including bread – or milk, which meets the definition of ‘severe food poverty’.”
Meanwhile, the number of diarrheal diseases has also increased dramatically. Israel has been waging war against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip for three months now. The number of Palestinians killed has risen to 22,600, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority. The war was sparked by the October 7 massacre committed by terrorists from Hamas and other groups in Israel. About 1,200 people were killed.
Source: Krone
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