WHO: Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza is completely destroyed and is now a cemetery

O World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the Al-Shifa Hospital -the largest health complex in the world Link and located to the north – is completely destroyed and a mission in which he participated discovered that bodies were buried in open areas within its facilities, while others lay abandoned.

By video call from Linkthe chief surgeon of the WHO, Thanos Gargavanissaid that a few days ago he led a team that visited Al-Shifain the north of the enclave, where he directly observed the total destruction of infrastructure and equipment.

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“Everything is destroyed and burned, the oxygen plants, the tomography, laboratories and surgical equipment such as ventilators and anesthesia. There are no more walls and in the building specialized surgeries there is a large crater from the basement to the second floor“, he detailed to the media in Geneva.

He also saw this inThe graves were dug in open spaces, some with names, others without. There were also abandoned bodies, some covered in plastic, others not.”

The surgeon indicated that WHO intends to organize dignified burials of the people who died in that hospital, placing their remains in individual bags intended for this purpose and providing for their subsequent identification through death tests. DNAas a way of providing comfort to families.

After the destruction of Al-Shifa, Gargavanis said there is only one oxygen production equipment left in the entire north of Linklocated in a small hospital.

“Once again we had to to participate “as it was done sixty years ago, without equipment”, sustained.

On the other hand, Gargavanis He also regretted Israel does not allow the regular evacuation of the wounded and sick, but does so very slowly, despite there being 9,000 people on the waiting list and from several Arab countries, mainly Egyptthey are willing to receive them.

Likewise, he said that Israel should stop treating medical equipment, medications, and other healthcare supplies as if they were potentially dual-use items, meaning they could be used with war purposeswhich seriously hinders their entry into Link.

Source: Elcomercio

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