The Director of the World Health Organization has described as ‘heartbreaking’ the situation in Gaza hospitals and renewed calls for protection for all hospitals across the besieged Gaza strip.
“The de-confliction mechanism is not working,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, who represents the UN agency, referring to its efforts to navigate through the months-long conflict, which began last 7 October.
Speaking to reporters, Dr Margaret Harris said only ten hospitals out of 36 in the Gaza Strip are partially operating, six of them are located in the south of the Strip and four in the north.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says the high rate of child fatality in the besieged Gaza will remain a ‘stain on all of humanity’ urging for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on the X platform that a team of WHO and partners had managed to tour al-Shifa to assess the situation in the hospital days after the Israeli occupation forces ended a two-week siege and attacks on the facility which caused massive destruction in it and led to scores of deaths among patients ...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that that further fatalities could happen if the patients in al-Shifa Hospital are not quickly evacuated.
"Around 9,000 patients urgently need to be evacuated abroad for lifesaving health services, including treatment for cancer, injuries from bombardments, kidneys dialysis and other chronic conditions," he said in a tweet.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says its figures show Israeli regime conducted 410 attacks on healthcare centers killing 685 people dead since the regime unleashed attacks on October 7.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the Israeli regime to drop its plans for military ground invasion against Rafah amid the catastrophic situation of Palestinians taking refuge in the city.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the Gaza health system being destroyed as Israel intensifies its airstrikes against the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7.
A team of WHO and other UN agencies was able to deliver medical supplies to the hospital on Saturday. Al-Shifa is the largest medical facility in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.
The attack reportedly resulted “in 12 deaths, including patients, and tens of injuries, including critical and life-threatening ones,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.