Executive of the World Health Organization (WHERE) responsible for the coordination of his teams in the Gaza Strip said yesterday Wednesday that he saw patients who simply “they were waiting for death” in enclave hospitals, whose operation faces unimaginable problems due to the war, speaking to the press yesterday Wednesday at the UN headquarters in New York.
After five weeks in the Palestinian enclave, Sean Casey, WHO coordinator, said he was seeing patients in hospitals every day with “very severe burns”, with “open fractures”, waiting “hours and days” for care. “They often asked me for food or water,” which “shows the level of desperation,” he continued.
Mr. Casey pointed out that he was able to visit only six of the 16 hospitals in the Gaza Strip where activity continues. Before the war broke out, 36 were operating in the enclave. “What I personally saw is the rapid deterioration of the state of the health system“, he summarized, at the same time as “the reduction of access to humanitarian aid, especially in the northern areas of the (Gaza) Strip”.
“We tried every day, for seven days, to deliver fuel and supplies north of Gaza City. Every day, our requests were being denied“, he narrated. In her hospitals Gaza Strip the arrival of wounded is unstoppable, while the medical and nursing staff has been reduced to a minimum, as its members, like the vast majority of the population, have been displaced from their homes.
Mr Casey said he saw patients in the northern Gaza Strip simply “waiting to die in a hospital with no fuel, no electricity, no water”. The trigger for the war that caused widespread destruction in the small Palestinian enclave and displaced more than 80% of the population was the unprecedented attack by its military arm Hamas against southern areas of Israel on October 7, when some 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed, according to an AFP tally based on official statements from the authorities.
Israel's civil-military leadership has vowed to “wipe out” the Palestinian Islamist movement in power in the enclave since 2007, and retaliatory military operations since then have killed at least 24,448 people, the vast majority of them women and children, according to the latest health ministry tally. of Hamas. The UN warns that the risk of “famine” and the occurrence of “deadly epidemics” is now increasing in the Gaza Strip.
Source: News Beast
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