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\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Espa\u00f1ol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n December 17, 2023<\/p>\n WHO staff participated in a joint Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December to deliver health supplies and assess the situation in the facility.\u00a0Partners on today\u2019s mission included\u00a0OCHA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDSS, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵMAS.\u00a0The team delivered\u00a0medicines and surgical supplies, orthopedic surgery equipment, and anesthesia materials and drugs\u00a0to the hospital.<\/p>\n Al-Shifa\u00a0Hospital, currently minimally functional, needs to urgently resume at least basic operations to continue serving the thousands in need of lifesaving health care.<\/p>\n Once the most important and largest referral hospital in Gaza,\u00a0Al-Shifa\u00a0now houses only a handful of doctors and a few nurses, together with 70 volunteers, working under what\u00a0WHO staff\u00a0described\u00a0as\u00a0\u201cunbelievably challenging circumstances,\u201d and\u00a0calling it a \u201chospital in need of resuscitation.\u201d\u00a0The operating theatres and other major services remain nonfunctional due to lack of\u00a0fuel, oxygen, specialized medical staff, and supplies. The hospital is only able to provide basic trauma stabilization, has no blood for transfusion, and hardly any staff to care for the constant flow of patients.\u00a0\u00a0Dialysis is being provided to approximately 30 patients a day, with the dialysis machines operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, using a\u00a0small generator.<\/p>\n The team described the emergency department as a \u201cbloodbath\u201d, with\u00a0hundreds of injured patients inside, and new patients arriving every minute. Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor, and limited to no pain management is available at the hospital.\u00a0WHO staff said that the emergency department is so full that care must be exercised to not step on patients on the floor.\u00a0Critical patients are being transferred to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital for surgeries.<\/p>\n Tens of thousands of displaced people are using the hospital building and grounds for shelter. A multi-pronged humanitarian response is needed to provide them with food, water and shelter.<\/p>\n Many of them asked our team to tell the world what is happening in the hope that their suffering might soon be eased.\u00a0Al-Shifa Hospital continues to experience\u00a0a severe shortage of food and safe water for health workers, patients, and displaced people. This\u00a0reflects grave and\u00a0growing concerns\u00a0around\u00a0persistent\u00a0hunger across the Gaza Strip, and the consequences of malnutrition on people\u2019s health and susceptibility to infectious diseases.<\/p>\n WHO is committed to strengthening Al-Shifa Hospital in the coming weeks, so that it can resume at least basic functionality and continue to provide the lifesaving services that are needed at this critical time.\u00a0Up to 20 operating theatres in the hospital, as well as post-operative care services, can be activated if provided with regular\u00a0supplies of fuel, oxygen, medicines, food, and water. Substantial additional specialized medical, nursing and support staff, including\u00a0emergency\u00a0medical\u00a0teams are also urgently needed.<\/p>\n Currently, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital remains the only partially functional hospital in north Gaza along with three minimally functional hospitals \u2013 Al-Shifa, Al Awda and Al Sahaba Medical Complex – down from 24 before the conflict.\u00a0WHO is also gravely concerned at the unfolding situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital and is gathering information urgently.<\/p>\n As hostilities continue and health needs across the Gaza Strip increase, Al-Shifa Hospital, a cornerstone of Gaza\u2019s health system, must be urgently restored so that it can serve a besieged people trapped in a cycle of death, destruction, hunger, and disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a Espa\u00f1ol December 17, 2023 WHO staff participated in a joint Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December to deliver health supplies and assess the situation in the facility.\u00a0Partners on today\u2019s mission included\u00a0OCHA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDSS, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵMAS.\u00a0The team delivered\u00a0medicines and surgical supplies, orthopedic surgery equipment, and anesthesia materials and drugs\u00a0to the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2529],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6872,2057,2005,2533,6869,5200,6870,2349,6871,6873,2729,6868],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6542,6538],"class_list":["post-291762","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-disease","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-hospitals","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-malnutrition","document-subject-medical-supplies","document-subject-shelter","document-subject-wash","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english","document-language-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291769,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291762\/revisions\/291769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=291762"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=291762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}