GAZA, (PIC)
The administration of Al-Awda Hospital in Tal Al-Zaatar in northern Gaza Strip warned on Saturday that the hospital will be forced to stop operating within 24 hours if fuel is not delivered by the World Health Organization.
The hospital’s acting director, Dr. Mohammed Salha, said in a statement that “the health sector in northern Gaza is suffering from a severe shortage of medical supplies and fuel.”
He pointed out that the hospital is currently dependent on small electrical generators to provide health care for the patients and the wounded.
Al-Awda Hospital is the only hospital that provides orthopedics and obstetric surgery services in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to general surgery, reception and emergency, specialized clinics, radiology and laboratory.
Since the start of the Israeli genocide war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year, the Israeli army has targeted Gaza hospitals and its health system and knocked more than 30 hospitals out of service, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
