“Health”: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital has lost its capacity

Gaza - Together - The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip issued a warning and an urgent distress call to the international community and all international and international health organizations, to save the health system in the Gaza Strip and stop the genocidal war before it is too late. The Ministry of Health said, in an urgent press conference held on Tuesday evening at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, that this hospital is the only hospital that currently provides health services to more than a million people, and that its clinical capacity cannot bear receiving more martyrs and injuries in light of the aggression against civilians and children. And women. It showed that the number of wounded and patients present in the hospital departments exceeds the normal clinical capacity by more than three times, and that these wounded and patients are sleeping in the corridors and in the internal and external courtyards of the hospital, so that the tents that were set up in the external co urtyards were filled with the injured and sick. She added that the reception and emergency department in the hospital is full of injured people, and cannot receive new wounded. Rather, cases are currently being received on the ground because there are not enough beds to receive cases that number in the dozens, in light of the great shortage of medical supplies, in addition to the presence of great pressure on the medical staff in the hospital. Which is no longer able to control the current situation. She pointed out that this serious condition is accompanied by surgical rooms full of critical injuries, and there are still numbers waiting at the doors of the operating department, some of whom have died due to the seriousness of the injuries and the lack of control over the medical condition of the injured and wounded. The Ministry called on the World Health Organization and all international organizations to go immediately and urgently to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital to closely examine the serious health situat ion that resulted from the continued aggression of the 'Israeli' occupation, and to address these out-of-control conditions. The Ministry indicated that the occupation army committed new massacres east of the Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps, claiming 15 martyrs and dozens of injuries during the past hour, which portends an increase in the number of victims in the coming hours if the "Israeli" aggression does not stop. It condemned the "Israeli" occupation committing such a large number of crimes and massacres against civilians, children and women, holding the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for the ongoing crimes of genocide and massacres. She called on the international community, all international and international organizations, and all countries of the free world to condemn these crimes, and to put pressure on the occupation to stop the genocidal war against civilians, children, and women. It also called on the international community, all international and internation al organizations, and countries of the free world to enter field hospitals and medical teams immediately and urgently in order to save the health situation in the Gaza Strip, and to control the conditions of tens of thousands of wounded and injured people who are in danger of death. It also called for the opening of the Rafah border crossing and the Kerem Shalom crossing, to transfer thousands of wounded and sick people to receive treatment abroad in light of this health crisis that the Strip is experiencing, and to bring in medical supplies, devices, medicines, field hospitals, medical teams, and fuel to operate hospitals and medical centers. Source: Maan News Agency