UN workers delivering aid to Gaza hospital describe ‘bloodbath’ in overflowing emergency department

UN workers delivering aid to Gaza hospital describe ‘bloodbath’ in overflowing emergency department

According to the team, Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor, limited to no pain management is available at the hospital, and the emergency department is so full that workers must take care not to step on patients on the floor.  Al-Shifa Hospital, formerly the most important and largest referral hospital in…

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Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’

‘Humanitarian disaster zone’: Gaza hospital capacity decimated – WHO

Briefing reporters from Gaza, Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described corridors overflowing with trauma patients at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where doctors treat people on the floor and fuel, oxygen, food and water are scarce. In just 66 days of fighting, the Strip has been transformed from a “reasonably…

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Attacks on or near Gaza hospitals ‘unconscionable, reprehensible and must stop’: Relief chief

Besieged Gaza hospital misery continues while rainfall prompts new health scare

“Rain will just add further to the suffering” of people in the Strip, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva, at a time when disruptions in sewage pumping and water shortages have caused a spike in waterborne diseases and bacterial infections.  The World Health Organization warned last week that since mid-October, over 33,500 cases of…

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Gaza: UN agencies make plea for international action to end hospital attacks

Gaza: UN agencies make plea for international action to end hospital attacks

The regional directors of the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), children’s agency UNICEF and health agency WHO, said they were “horrified” at latest reports which indicate many have been killed – including children – in facilities across Gaza city and other northern areas of the Strip. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society is reporting…

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UN agencies condemn deadly strike on Gaza hospital

UN agencies condemn deadly strike on Gaza hospital

An Israeli airstrike struck al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, international media reported, citing the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave. The details have yet to be verified, but the Israeli Defense Forces tweeted that according to its intelligence information, rockets fired by Islamic Jihad militants towards Israel were to blame, having deviated off course….

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shifted to the hospital after his health worsened

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shifted to the hospital after his health worsened

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken to the hospital after his health worsened. According to the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu has been taken to the hospital due to his health deterioration. The statement further said that the Prime Minister’s condition is better now, doctors are examining him. The 73-year-old prime…

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The man who tied himself to the gate of Buckingham Palace, the royal palace of Great Britain, was taken to the hospital

The man who tied himself to the gate of Buckingham Palace, the royal palace of Great Britain, was taken to the hospital

Courtesy: The Telegraph, London. The man who tied himself to the gate of Buckingham Palace, the royal palace of Great Britain, has been transferred to the hospital. According to the British media from London, yesterday, a man handcuffed himself from the gate of Buckingham Palace. In this regard, British media say that the 30-year-old man…

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