Unprecedented medical crisis: healthcare workers and facilities targeted in Gaza

◾ Unprecedented medical crisis: healthcare workers and facilities targeted in Gaza. ◾Dr Ben Thompson, a USOSSM member, stated that 283 healthcare workers and 133 UN staff members have been killed in Gaza, the deadliest period in UN history. - ’Of the 35 hospitals in Gaza as of this morning, 26 are non-functional, with nine remaining only partially functional, he said. - Ambulance convoys have been bombed in Gaza, and with fuel shortages and hospital closures, treating patients is no longer feasible. - ’It is now impossible to evacuate wounded people in the north. Instead, those patients are left to die, said Dr Thompson. ◾ Over 17,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza on 7 October, including over 7,000 children. Due to overcrowding at hospitals and UN shelters, the spread of infectious diseases has increased, including a hepatitis A outbreak, multiple meningitis outbreaks, lice and skin infe... Источник: Lord Of War