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Doctors Without Borders: Healthcare system in Gaza facing collapse

Medical charity says hospitals overwhelmed, lack resources

Zehra Nur Düz  | 21.10.2023 - Update : 22.10.2023
Doctors Without Borders: Healthcare system in Gaza facing collapse A general view of the heavily damaged Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital building after bombing in Gaza City, Gaza on October 18, 2023.

ANKARA 

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said late Friday that the health care system in Gaza is facing collapse amid heavy attacks by Israel. 

“Hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking resources. We recently made a large donation of medical stock, including medicines, narcotics and medical equipment to Al Shifa hospital, the main surgical facility in the Strip,” MSF wrote on X.

“We delivered everything we had left, all our medical supplies, to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, two days ago. We saw hundreds of people taking shelter and it was difficult to walk inside,” it quoted Loay Harb, a MSF nurse in Gaza.

“There were huge numbers of people inside the hospital; they think the hospital is a safe place, but there is no safe place. There is not enough space. There are patients who need surgery and they are laying on the ground,” said Harb.

The medical charity said it stands ready to provide further support to medical facilities in Gaza as soon as a corridor is opened for the delivery of humanitarian aid.


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