He Shifa Hospital Directorin the City of Gaza, Mohammad Abu Salmiasaid that, despite the order of Total evacuation dictated by him Israeli army On the capital of the enclave, neither he nor his medical team will leave the center nor his patients.
“We will stay with patients“He said in messages sent to EFE The person responsible for the major Gazatí Hospitalcon 402 camasafter knowing the eviction order. He recalled that about one million people live in the city and that hospitals are completely collapsed. The situation, he warned, is equally criticism in the south of the strip, where “there is no place to receive any patient.”
Abu Salmia stressed that “the situation is now extremely dangerous in the hospitals of (City of) Gaza” after the evacuation order, pointing out that they work with an occupation of 300 % and that “patients cannot be moved anywhere in Gaza, nor to the south.”
“All hospitals in southern Gaza, public and campaign are occupied by patients, wounded, and there is no place to take any patient in southern Gaza, so the situation is very, very, very difficult,” he insisted. He also explained that the intensive care units of the capital are saturated.
“There are more than 50 patients with mechanical ventilation and oxygen, and special care; more than 80 babies in incubators; y 350 dialysis patients. We cannot attend them anywhere in Gaza, or in the south “he stressed. As detailed, all dialysis patients are concentrated in the SHIFA, 15 people in intensive careSY 21 newborns In incubators, whose transfer is “extremely difficult.”
They claim urgent protection for hospitals and medical personnel
“We will keep the patients, with the injured, in the hospital, but our experiences with the occupation (Israeli) have been terrible, so we ask for a urgent international protection For hospitals, for medical staff, and a safe corridor to bring the wounded to the hospital, “he said.
El Gaza Ministry of Health launched on Tuesday a “call urgent“To the international community to guarantee the”Immediate protection“Of the hospitals and medical staff in the capital of the enclave, after the complete evacuation of the city ordered by Israel.
The Israeli army declared Gaza Capital as “dangerous combat zone” and asked civilians to move south, towards the new “Humanitarian zone” nearly Jan Yunisannounced on Saturday, although it is already saturated with displaced.
