Experts from WHO and other humanitarian organizations enter Al Shifa hospital in Gaza

Specialists from World Health Organization (WHO) and other humanitarian agencies United Nations managed to access the Al-Shifa Hospitalmain of Link and scene of violent fighting over the last week, in order to analyze the situation at the medical center.

In a statement from WHO sent in the early hours of today, the organization emphasizes that the mission had guarantees of safe access from the Israeli Defense Forces but was “high risk”Due to the fact that there are still hostilities in the vicinity of the hospital.

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The mission, also integrated by those responsible for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs It’s from United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), was carried out after Israeli forces on Saturday ordered the forced evacuation of 2,500 internally displaced people taking refuge in the hospital, as well as doctors and patients.

“Due to established time limits and the insecure situation, the team was only able to spend an hour inside the hospital, which they described as a ‘dead zone’ in which the situation is ‘desperate’.“, said the WHO statement.

The members of the mission, whose task was to examine the priorities of action and possible evacuations of those who remained there, found that the hospital had signs of having suffered bombings, shootings and noted how more than 80 people had been buried in a mass grave. at the hospital entrance.

The center lacked drinking water, fuel, medicine and other basic necessities, which caused the Al-Shifa Hospitalin its time the largest and most advanced of the Link“In general terms, it no longer functions as a medical center”.

In a building whose corridors were full of rubbish that increases the risk of infection, “Patients and medical staff were terrified and begged to be evacuated”, highlighted the members of the team that visited the building.

The WHO indicates that after the evacuations, 25 health professionals and 291 patients remain in Al-Shifasome in extremely critical condition, including two in intensive care, 22 on dialysis and 32 babies.

Al Shifa has stopped admitting new patients and now new injured and sick people are sent to nearby areas Indonesian Hospitalwhose situation is also at the limit due to overcrowding and lack of supplies, highlighted the WHO.

In Al Shifa “most patients are victims of trauma caused by war”, including some with amputations and around thirty with serious spinal injuries that prevent them from moving without medical assistance, the WHO added.

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After becoming aware of the situation, the health organization of the UN He indicated that he is preparing plans for the evacuation of patients who still remain hospitalized, and it is expected that within 24-72 hours there will be new missions from this and other agencies to carry out them.

Patients would be taken to Nasser Medical Complex it’s him European Hospital of Gazaboth in southern Gaza, said the organization, clarifying, however, that both are already working at the limit of their capacity.

The official spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagariannounced at a press conference on Saturday that its troops continue to operate in the medical center to uncover underground infrastructures of Hamas, which it accuses of having its main command center under the hospital.

Source: Elcomercio

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