EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Rescuers bring a Palestinian girl to a hospital following an Israeli strike, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Stripon October 14, 2023, as fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement continues for the eigth consecutive day. - AFPPIX: The World Health Organisation has strongly condemned Israel’s orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 patients in northern Gaza.
“Patients undergoing hemodialysis, newborns in incubators, women with complications of pregnancy, and others are all facing imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated,“ Palestinian news agency reported WHO warned in a statement.
WHO stressed that “forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number of patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence”. WAFA also reported that tens of thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza are seeking refuge in open spaces in or around hospitals, treating them as havens from Israeli bombardment as well as to protect the facilities from potential attacks.WHO also reiterated its calls for the immediate and safe delivery of medical supplies, fuel, clean water, food, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, where life-saving assistance.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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