GAZA, (PIC)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Thursday that all health facilities in the southern Gaza Strip have reached the breaking point due to the ongoing Israeli aggression.
The Director of the ICRC’s sub-delegation in Gaza, William Schomburg, affirmed in a statement on Thursday that the large number of casualties made the ICRC’s hospital and all health facilities in southern Gaza reach the breaking point and become unable to treat even those suffering from life-threatening injuries.
He said that the ICRC’s field hospital includes 60 beds in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, adding that the Israeli occupation army’s bombing of the Al-Mawasi area last Saturday led to the arrival of 26 wounded people to the facility, including children who were injured by shrapnel.
The ICRC elaborated that any other aggression that causes such a large number of casualties will force doctors and nurses to make very difficult choices as that the current medical needs of civilians far exceed the limited capabilities available.
For his part, Dr. Pankaj Galdial, working with the ICRC facility, said, “It is unimaginable how many patients needed resuscitation after the influx of injured people on Saturday.”
In addition to the 26 wounded who were transferred from Al-Mawasi to the ICRC’s field hospital to receive treatment, the facility received an additional 850 people in its outpatient department last week, almost half of them were women and a third of them were children.
The organization stressed that “most of the patients have been displaced from their homes several times and live with limited amounts of food and drinking water in crowded areas, which makes them more vulnerable to diseases”, noting that its team has provided, since the opening of the facility in May, 12,000 medical consultations and conducted more than 500 surgeries.
