PNN – A senior official of Doctors without Borders organization, pointing out that in the shadow of the severe siege against Gaza, hospitals in this region are facing a severe shortage of personnel and medical equipment and medicine, warned about the spread of various types of difficult respiratory diseases with the onset of the cold season.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, following the warnings of international organizations about the catastrophic medical and health situation in the entire Gaza Strip, “Fadi Al-Madhoun”, the director of the medical department at Doctors without Borders, announced: The main problem that the medical teams in Gaza are facing is the lack of medical supplies and equipment and medicine, while the entry of any medical equipment into this area is still being prevented and the Gaza Strip is facing a severe shortage of medical personnel.
He added: respiratory diseases, pneumonia, skin diseases and diseases caused by immune deficiency have spread terribly among the citizens of Gaza. Also, in the shadow of the cold weather and the refugees staying in tents that are not equipped and cannot protect them from the cold, we expect the spread of acute respiratory infections among people, especially children.
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This official of the Doctors without Borders organization emphasized: IDPs suffer from harsh environmental and health conditions, especially after the significant accumulation of garbage and damage to the sewage networks. We have prepared a field hospital with 70 beds, and currently only three hospitals are active in the entire Gaza Strip, and they have very limited capabilities.
Marwan Al-Homs, director of field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, announced that the occupying regime continues to target Kamal Adwan Hospital in a deliberate manner in order to completely remove this hospital from its service circuit.
He stated: The occupying regime wants to completely destroy the health system of northern Gaza, and for this reason, it is deliberately seeking to shut down Kamal Adwan Hospital. Because he knows that this hospital is one of the most important factors for the stability of the people of northern Gaza and it is one of the important reasons for the failure of the Israeli conspiracy in the implementation of the displacement plan of the people here.