Two-thirds of hospitals and one-third of clinics in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have ceased operationswarned today World Health Organization (WHO), which warned of the enormous health pressures facing the territory, with more than five thousand people killed and 15 thousand injured in the conflict.

“We fear an increase in mortality among people with chronic diseases”– warned WHO Middle East emergencies director Rick Brennan.

He also highlighted the risk of fences breaking through, for example. 200 women who give birth every day in Gaza“You can expect that 15% of them will have some kind of complication,” he explained, and in such a broken health care network, it is difficult for them to be treated for, for example, bleeding during childbirth.

A similar situation faces patients with kidney problems requiring dialysis and other chronic problems, “who increasingly have difficulty finding the services they need.”

All this, he recalled, at a time when more than 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza are internally displacedor where water is a scarce commodity: “one to three liters per day per person are available, whereas the minimum according to international standards should be 15,” he reiterated.

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“Almost no one in the Gaza Strip has been able to take a shower or bath in recent weeks,” Brennan stressed at a telematics conference in Cairo for the press accredited by the United Nations in Geneva.

The head of the region recalled that respiratory infections are on the rise in Gaza, outbreaks of diarrhea and even dermatological problems such as scabies.due to water shortages and widespread hygiene problems.

Aid reaching Gaza through 54 trucks Over the past three days, this has enabled WHO to deliver medicines to three hospitalsalthough Brennan regretted that nothing could be contributed to Turkish hospital in the Gaza Strip, main for the treatment of cancer patientsas it is located in one of the areas most affected by the attacks.

“Some boxes of materials were delivered directly to the operating tables where doctors performed operations. operations without anesthesia“, said the head of WHO.

(EFE)