WHO calls for evacuation of al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, which has become a 'death zone'

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WHO calls for evacuation of al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, which has become a “death zone” SHARE Agence France-Presse

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had carried out a mission on Saturday to the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, occupied by the Israeli army, and was working on an evacuation plan for the establishment which it described as a “death zone”.

According to the WHO, whose experts spent an hour inside the immense hospital complex, it still housed 25 caregivers and 291 patients on Saturday , including 32 babies in critical condition, 22 patients on dialysis and two in intensive care.

Mission members described the hospital as a “death zone” where the situation is “desperate,” WHO reported in a statement.

“WHO and partners are developing “Urgent plans for the immediate evacuation of remaining patients, staff and their families,” the organization added.

“The team saw a hospital that was no longer able to function: no water, no food , no electricity, no fuel, medical supplies exhausted,” WHO Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X (ex-Twitter).

“Given this deplorable situation and the condition of many patients, including babies, healthcare staff have requested help to evacuate patients who can no longer receive vital care on site,” he said. he added.

In its press release, the WHO reports that the vast majority of patients still in hospital are victims of complex fractures and amputations, burns, thoracic and abdominal trauma, and that 29 patients suffered serious spinal injuries and were unable to move without medical assistance. Many injured people are also suffering from severe infections, due to the lack of antibiotics and poor hygiene conditions.

The WHO has announced that several missions will be organized in the coming days to evacuate people. urgently the remaining patients to the Nasser Hospital and the European Hospital in Gaza, even if the latter “are already operating beyond their capacities.”

According to the Israeli army, which launched Wednesday morning a raid on the al-Chifa hospital, the latter shelters a Hamas hideout installed in particular in a network of tunnels. The Islamist movement denies.