Head of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza: We have reached a stage where we can only prioritize the wounded.
Dr. Mohammad Salimah, the director of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, announced that the medical staff lost control over the situation due to the tragic conditions and the great humanitarian disaster, and after all the hospitals in all departments were full of wounded, the work to The stage of prioritizing the wounded has arrived.
According to Isna, citing Sputnik, he asked the world to immediately establish a ceasefire and open safe humanitarian corridors for the wounded to leave the Gaza Strip, to bring in the necessary medical equipment, including beds and medicines, to field hospitals. create and provide fuel for hospitals.
Salima announced that the number of injured is more than the capacity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in Gaza.
Stating that the number of dead and wounded in the last eight days has exceeded the number of victims killed in 2014 in 51 days of war, he said: “The wounded are on the ground and on the roads, and we cannot send those who are in the operating rooms to the intensive care unit.” Transfer them because they are full. The capacity is limited and has reached such a point that even children’s and maternity beds are used.
Saying that more than 40,000 displaced people have taken refuge in the hospital to escape the bombardment, Salima pointed to the severe lack of water and, as a result, the inability to sterilize surgical instruments after operations.
He said: If the generators run out of fuel due to a complete power cut, the hospital will turn into a mass grave.
Noting that there is constant contact with the World Health Organization, the International Red Cross, and all organizations working in Gaza, Salima revealed that the International Red Cross and all international organizations fear that their teams will be attacked “except with the permission of the Israelis.” They can’t do anything.
He said that more than 15 paramedics were killed and more than 40 ambulances were targeted in unprecedented crimes.