Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with over 61,500 injured people and daily arrival of hundreds more hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, UN has said, TRT World reports.
The World Health Organization’s Sean Casey, who left Gaza recently after five weeks of trying to get more staff and supplies to the territory’s 16 partially functioning hospitals, told a UN news conference on Wednesday that he saw “a really horrifying situation in the hospitals” as the health system collapsed day by day.
Al Shifa Hospital, once Gaza’s leading hospital with 700 beds, has been reduced to treating only emergency trauma victims, and is filled with thousands of people who have fled their homes and are now living in operating rooms, corridors and stairs, he said.
“Literally five or six doctors or nurses” are seeing hundreds of patients a day, Casey said, most with life-threatening injuries, and there were “so many patients on the floor you could barely move without stepping on somebody’s hands or feet.”
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