The largest hospital in Ciudad de Gaza refuses to transfer its patients: “In the south there is no place”
The director of the Shifa Hospital of Ciudad de Gaza, Mohamad Abu Salmia, has assured that, despite the order of complete eviction of the capital of the Palestinian enclave by the Israeli army, the center’s medical team does not intend to leave the city or evacuate the patients.
“We will stay with the patients,” he said in an exchange of messages with Efe the head of the largest hospital in the Gazatí capital (with 402 beds) after the evacuation order issued by Israel throughout the city, where around one million people live.
Abu Salmia argues that his hospital and the rest of the medical centers of Ciudad de Gaza are already completely full, but the situation is also critical in the south of the strip, where “there is no place to receive any patients.”
“The situation is now extremely dangerous in the hospitals of (City of) Gaza” after the evacuation order, said the medical director, who has indicated that all of the city are full with an occupation of 300% and “the patients cannot be moved anywhere in Gaza, nor to the south.”
“All hospitals in southern Gaza, public and campaign are occupied by patients, wounded, and there is no place to take any patient in southern Gaza, so the situation is very, very, very difficult,” he said.
Abu Salmia has detailed that the intensive care units of the Centers of the Gazatí capital are saturated. “There are more than 50 patients with mechanical and oxygen ventilation, and special care; more than 80 babies in incubators; and 350 dialysis patients. We cannot attend them anywhere in Gaza, nor in the south,” he stressed.
Only in the Shifa, he has indicated that they have all dialysis patients, as well as 15 people in intensive care and 21 neonates in incubators, whose transfer is extremely difficult. “We will stay with patients, with the injured, in the hospital, but our experiences with the occupation (Israeli) have been terrible, so we ask for an urgent international protection for hospitals, for medical staff, and a safe corridor to bring the wounded to the hospital,” he said.
Now, he added, the Gazatis of the capital suffer “famine, disease, wounds”, and are “mentally and physically exhausted.” The Ministry of Health of Gaza has launched an “urgent call” to the international community to guarantee the “immediate protection” of hospitals and medical equipment in the capital of the enclave, after the complete evacuation of the city ordered by Israel. (EFE)
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