The Israeli occupation destroyed most of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip (French-Archive)
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that about 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip need urgent evacuation outside the Strip to receive treatment.
Ghebreyesus explained, in a post on the X platform, that these patients need vital health services, “especially cancer treatment, wounds resulting from bombing operations, dialysis, and other chronic diseases.”
The Director-General of the World Health Organization warned that "with only 10 minimally functioning hospitals throughout Gaza, thousands of patients are still deprived of health care."
There were 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip before the start of the Israeli war, according to data from the World Health Organization.
With only 10 minimally functional hospitals across the whole of #Gaza, thousands of patients continue to be deprived of health care.
Around 9,000 patients urgently need to be evacuated abroad for lifesaving health services, including treatment for cancer, injuries from…
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 30, 2024
Ghebreyesus stated that so far, "more than 3,400 patients have been transferred abroad through Rafah, including 2,198 wounded and 1,215 patients."
He added, "But many others must be evacuated. We urge Israel to speed up approvals for evacuations in order to enable critically ill patients to receive treatment. Every moment is important."
Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip for about 6 months, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, amid international organizations’ condemnation of the occupation army’s targeting of hospitals and health facilities and the killing and arrest of medical teams.
Source: Al Jazeera + French