World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned today that the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis, the second largest in Gaza, has ceased operations and 200 patients need to be taken care of.
“Nasser’s hospital in Gaza is no longer functioning,” Tedros denounced on his social network account
Tedros has also denounced that a WHO team was denied access to the hospital to assess the patients' conditions and their urgent medical needs, even though they had also come to deliver fuel to supply the hospitals. Generators.
“There are still around 200 patients in the hospital. At least 20 need to be urgently transferred to other hospitals to receive medical care. A medical referral is the right of every patient,” emphasized Tedros.
“Patients will pay the cost of delays with their lives,” he warned.
The Palestinian Red Crescent, in turn, announced this Sunday through its social networks that the Israeli army fired artillery fire on the third floor of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. The center has also been the target of a siege in recent weeks.
(With information from Europa Press)