Essentially the most weak sufferers at al-Shifa Hospital – dozens of prematurely born infants in crucial situation – have been evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip.
Of the 39 infants who had been left with out incubators when al-Shifa Hospital was left wanting gas and medical provides after Israeli forces raided on Wednesday, 31 have made it out.
Mohammed Zaqout, director-general of hospitals in Gaza, advised journalists that “all 31 untimely infants in al-Shifa Hospital… have been evacuated” together with three medical doctors and two nurses, and “preparations are beneath approach” for them to enter Egypt.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, stated the infants had been on their technique to southern Gaza hospitals in six ambulances supplied by Save the Kids Basis.
Israeli forces ordered medical doctors, sufferers and displaced folks at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate the medical compound, forcing some to go away by gunpoint, medical doctors and Palestinian officers advised Al Jazeera on Saturday.
A World Well being Group staff that visited the hospital on Saturday reported that there have been nonetheless tons of of sufferers there, together with many in extraordinarily crucial situation, trauma sufferers with severely contaminated wounds, and others with spinal accidents who’re unable to maneuver.
“Sufferers and well being workers with whom they spoke had been terrified for his or her security and well being, and pleaded for evacuation,” the company stated, describing al-Shifa as a dying zone.
Medical doctors stated that 4 infants had died in the course of the raid.
It’s unclear the place precisely the infants will probably be positioned as soon as they arrive at Khan Younis. The plan is to distribute them between the European and Nasser hospitals, Abu Azzoum stated. The Nasser hospital, nonetheless, has a complete of 12 incubators, of which solely 6 can be found.
