DaysofPal- Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse as tens of thousands of wounded Palestinians remain without medical care amid severe shortages of supplies, hospital destruction, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Dr. Munir al-Borsh, Director-General of the Ministry, said on Thursday that more than 400 urgent surgeries are required to save lives, while nearly 170,000 injured Palestinians are still waiting for treatment across the besieged enclave.
“The health sector is facing an unprecedented crisis,” al-Borsh warned.
“Hospitals are unable to cope with the overwhelming number of wounded. Without immediate medical aid, thousands more could die.” He added.
Only a handful of Gaza’s hospitals remain partially functional after months of relentless attacks. According to the ministry, 38 hospitals have been destroyed, and the remaining facilities are operating under extreme conditions, without fuel, electricity, clean water, or adequate anesthesia.
Doctors report performing surgeries without painkillers and treating patients on floors and in corridors.
The World Health Organization has described the situation as “beyond catastrophic,” warning that Gaza’s healthcare system “no longer exists in any functional sense.”
At the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, one of the last major hospitals in the south, wards are overcrowded and emergency rooms are filled beyond capacity.
Medical staff say they face impossible choices as resources dwindle and patients keep arriving from northern Gaza, where most hospitals have ceased to function entirely.
With power outages crippling incubators, ventilators, and dialysis units, doctors say patients, including premature babies, are dying from preventable causes.
“People are dying not from their wounds, but from the lack of electricity, oxygen, and medicine,” one doctor said.
Health officials have also warned of a growing risk of epidemics due to contaminated water and the breakdown of sanitation systems, raising fears of a new public health disaster.
International agencies, including the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières, have appealed for safe humanitarian corridors, but access remains restricted as border crossings continue to be closed.
The crisis underscores the collapse of Gaza’s entire healthcare infrastructure after nearly two years of war.
Medical workers have been killed or detained, ambulances targeted, and hospitals repeatedly shelled.
With no end to the Israeli genocide in sight, health officials warn that even if the fighting stopped today, it would take years to rebuild Gaza’s shattered medical system.
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