Doctors Without Borders
Doctors: Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is collapsing
An ambulance among rubble in Beit Lahia near Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. photo
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The aid organization Doctors Without Borders warns of a collapse in medical care for people in the Gaza Strip. “The whole system is collapsing,” said General Director Nicolai.
Given the dramatic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, medical staff there are making it, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are barely able to provide people with adequate care. “The healthcare system has been attacked – it is collapsing. The whole system is collapsing,” said the aid organization’s director general, Meinie Nicolai, in a video message on the online platform X (formerly Twitter).
People would live in catastrophic conditions, said Nicolai. “They’re desperate. They’re living in makeshift shelters. It’s cold. There’s not enough food.” Above all, the lack of drinking water and medical care is making the situation worse. The organization’s helpers would work from tents and treat the injured. Because of the poor hygienic conditions, many people’s wounds became infected.
Meanwhile, the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, north of the coastal strip, suspended its medical activities due to a lack of fuel. This is making the situation even worse and depriving thousands of patients of medical care, said hospital director Ahmed Kahalot.
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