Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah is once again stretched beyond capacity amid ongoing Israeli ground and air attacks on the Middle area’s camps, according to medical referent in Gaza on Thursday June 6.
Karin Huster, MSF’s medical referent, reported that as Israeli military strikes continued last night in the Middle Area, Al-Aqsa Hospital is barely coping with the influx of patients and dead people.
Huster said in a statement that the scenes there are only a scene of devastation, describing the hospital as a “sinking ship”.
She continued to say that the scene inside the emergency room of Al-Aqsa Hospital is even worse than yesterday. They had no chance to reorganize after yesterday’s mass influx of casualties, and now they have been struck with another.
Astonishingly, she said the medical staff is saying ‘we are not giving up on our patients. I can definitely see that. I am just not sure for how long it will be sustainable.”
Al-Aqsa Hospital is the only medical facility offering services in central Gaza, and it is currently “overflowing with wounded people”, many of whom are being treated on the floor, according to a spokesperson from the Gaza health ministry as commenting on the situation amid Israel’s attacks on the Middle area camps, especially Al-Bureij.
On Thursday, Al-Aqsa hospital warned that the malfunction of its generators poses a humanitarian disaster that could claim the lives of dozens of wounded, patients, and critically ill children in the intensive care units and those relying on respiratory machines powered by electricity.
The Hospital currently houses over 700 wounded and patients, serving more than a million people and displaced individuals in the central governorate. It has been relying on only two generators for 244 days without stop. This rendered one of the generators out of service. The other needs regular maintenance and spare parts, yet the Israeli army bans their entry.
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