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WHO Says Gaza Health Care at Breaking Point
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUN 17 – Only 17 of Gaza's 36 hospitals remain partially functional with over 100 days of no fuel, risking complete healthcare collapse and increased preventable deaths, WHO reported.
- The World Health Organization stated that Gaza's health system is at a "breaking point" due to fuel shortages impacting medical services.
- Only 17 of Gaza's 36 hospitals are currently functional, amid ongoing military operations complicating medical access.
- Without fuel, medical services will completely cease, potentially leading to preventable deaths.
- The overall death toll in Gaza has reached 55,493 people since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, according to the health ministry.
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Gaza’s premature babies caught between siege and world apathy
On the lower floor of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, a quiet war is unfolding, not one of bullets and bombs but of dwindling supplies, failing power, and dying infants. In the neonatal intensive care unit, the soft hum of machines mixes with the faint, intermittent cries of Gaza's most vulnerable: premature babies fighting for life in the shadow of an unrelenting Israeli blockade. Ahmed al-Farra, head of paediatrics and obstetrics at the…
According to the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), the consequences of fuel shortages are critical as they paralyze essential services and the distribution of vital aid in the Gaza Strip. Likewise, incubators stop killing the lives of many newborns, ambulances cannot circulate, and water stops flowing, preventing access to the water resource vital to human life. As a result of this shortage, bakeries remain…
No Anesthesia, No Aid, No Mercy: My Journey Through Gaza's Collapsing Health System - Quds News Network
She carried her bleeding son through Gaza’s shattered streets, searching for a hospital with sutures. With no anesthesia, no antibiotics, and overwhelmed doctors, Gaza’s health system is collapsing in silence.Report by Nour Dawood.
No fuel, no hope: WHO warns of mass death if Gaza hospitals shut
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Tuesday pleaded for fuel to be allowed into Gaza to keep its remaining hospitals running, warning the Palestinian territory’s health system was at “breaking point.” © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
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