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(Radio France Internationale). Palestinians are displaced again, humanitarian aid is barely arriving, the health system is on the verge of collapse… health situation is catastrophic V Rafahon the
(Radio France Internationale). Palestinians are displaced again, humanitarian aid is barely arriving, the health system is on the verge of collapse… health situation is catastrophic V Rafahon the south strip A loop.
He twelfth hospital What Doctors Without Borderss (MSF) evacuated seven months into the war, with disastrous consequences for patients who had to go to field hospitals in harsh conditions.
In addition, they cannot be evacuated to Egypt because the Rafah checkpoint was captured by the Israeli army and is now closed. Naturally, this has implications for humanitarian and medical assistance.
“We have not been able to receive humanitarian aid since May 6,” says Guillemette Thomas, medical coordinator for MSF Palestine, based in Jerusalem.
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“We are talking about medicines, medical equipment, food, of course, this is an acute problem. But there is also a fuel problem, which directly affects the work of hospitals. All hospitals run on generators. If there is no fuel, there is no electricity. Therefore, hospitals cannot function,” he emphasizes.
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Another consequence of the closure of the Rafah crossing is that no one comes in or out. MSF has 23 foreign medical workers stranded in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli operation in Rafah. Those who were supposed to replace them cannot enter. Palestinian doctors, for their part, are tired after seven months of war.
According to Guillemette Thomas, some are now afraid to go to work. “There is a hospital in Rafah that is now at half capacity, not because it is in the evacuation zone, but because staff are afraid to go there to work. “They saw what happened at Al-Shifa Hospital in Nasser, with the arrests of medical workers, with the destruction of medical facilities,” the humanitarian continues.
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Today, according to WHO, two-thirds hospitals in Gaza are not working, i.e. 24 of 36. The rest work, as we understand, in very difficult conditions.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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