United Nations: A medical disaster is taking shape in Gaza
| Thousands of wounded Palestinians are martyred while their access to medical services decreases every day, and this issue has resulted in the reaction of the United Nations. |
Fars News Agency International Group: “Hospitals are working hard. Infectious diseases are spreading rapidly in overcrowded shelters.” These are the latest warnings of the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the head of the organization’s relief department, Martin Griffiths, regarding the public health situation of the people of Gaza.
Anatolia news agency reported that as the war in Gaza continues, Gazan hospitals are rarely and hardly working and Palestinians In this region, as the UN representative has warned, they have faced a health and medical disaster.
At the same time that Griffiths warned that hundreds of war wounded in Gaza do not have access to medical services. The Secretary-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asked the international community to take “important steps to reduce the profound risks of the people of Gaza”.
The latest assessment by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that currently 13 hospitals in Gaza are relatively active, and the activity of two hospitals has been reduced to a minimum, while that 21 hospitals have been completely removed.
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