GAZA: Support businesses hope to evacuate roughly 140 sufferers stranded in Gaza’s Nasser hospital, a World Well being Group official mentioned on Thursday (Feb 22), as Palestinian authorities reported that Israeli troops had withdrawn however nonetheless encircled the advanced.
Medical groups had buried on the grounds of the hospital 13 sufferers who had died as a result of the ability had no energy or oxygen, Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned.
The WHO says the hospital in Khan Younis, which is Gaza’s second-largest and is essential to the territory’s crippled well being companies, stopped working final week after an Israeli siege adopted by a raid.
The WHO and companions have up to now carried out three evacuations from the hospital, the most recent on Wednesday, transferring a complete of 51 sufferers to southern Gaza, the UN company’s Ayadil Saparbekov instructed a press briefing.
“The WHO will proceed to attempt evacuation of these critically ailing and critically wounded sufferers from the Nasser hospital to different hospitals within the south, together with the sector hospitals which were established in Rafah,” Saparbekov mentioned.
“Nevertheless it is a very troublesome and high-risk mission.”
