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He 6% of Gaza’s population Ha dead or was injure V year of Israeli bombing against the Palestinian territory, the World Health Organization said Tuesday (WHO), while summing up the human casualties of almost a year of war.

Almost 41,800 people died.while about 97 thousand woundedto which are added 10 thousand missing which are believed to be under the rubble, said WHO emergencies director in the occupied Palestinian territories Ayadil Saparbekov.

An estimated quarter of those injured suffered injuries that would leave them disabled for the rest of my life.

The doctor emphasized the damage caused Gaza healthcare system in continuous attacks that numbered at least 516 people and killed 765 people, while shortage of medicines, fuel And workers continue.

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From the medical staff. more than a thousand were killed.

Faced with enormous needs as the number of wounded increases every day and attacks continue unabated, Saparbekov said that 43% of hospitals are operating very partiallywith a total capacity of 1,500 beds and a further 650 in ten field hospitals.

A doctor and WHO official, linked via teleconference to UN press in Geneva, shared a personal account of the past year he spent trying to help Gaza’s health system stay on its feet, recalling “The smell of rotten blood and death in the courtyard of Al-Shifa”the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, which had been under attack and blockade by the Israeli army for weeks.

I remember the panic and fear on people’s faces as they transported their loved ones to overcrowded hospitals, where patients were scattered across floors, corridors and every possible space. I have witnessed patients howling in pain due to lack of pain relief treatment.

Saparbekov also recalled that during his visits to Gaza, he met a surgeon at Al-Sahab Hospital who told him “how he amputated his niece’s leg at the kitchen table because there was no safe access to the hospital.”

At this time the only limb reconstruction center in Gaza, the Nasser Hospital is not functioning, as is the only psychiatric hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Before the war 20% of the population were diagnosed with mental disorders. and the consequences of twelve months of hostilities make us fear the worst in this respect.

Also there are no services oncologyfrom MRI and from pediatric surgery specialized, among many other basic medical services.

EFE