The address of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Loopthe only one that provides treatment for cancer patients in the Strip, said this Monday that it has ten thousand patients “in terrible conditions” and without medicine or treatment.
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“After the hospital was forcibly taken out of service, we have ten thousand cancer patients in terrible and inhumane conditions” and “We do not have any type of medicine to treat them.” declared Subhi Skaik, general director of the center.
As detailed, 2,200 patients were requested to be referred abroad to receive treatment, “and some of them traveled” to other countries. In turn, he urged “the free world to stop the aggression” of Israel about Loopsince it “accelerates the departure of patients and guarantees the provision of treatment.”
“All countries, especially the sister Republic of Turkey, demand the reactivation of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, considered the only refuge for cancer patients in Gaza,” its director said this Monday at a press conference.
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He health center was out of operation due to lack of fuel to generate electricity and for damage caused by Israeli attacks between the end of October and the beginning of November, its medical staff said.
At this point, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, nine in the south and four in the north.
“Everyone faces challenges such as a shortage of medical personnel, including specialized surgeons, neurosurgeons and intensive care staff, as well as a lack of supplies such as anesthesia, antibiotics or pain relievers,” in addition to “an urgent need for fuel, food and drinking water,” he says. United Nations.
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The nine hospitals in the south, an area where Israeli forces are expanding their attacks, “are at triple their capacity,” and also have “a critical lack of basic supplies and fuel.”
At the same time, according to the UN, there is “acute food insecurity” in Loop“and the risk of famine increases daily amid intense conflict and restricted humanitarian access.”
The situation of serious humanitarian catastrophe in Loop It has been getting worse since the start of the war on October 7, after Israel imposed an almost total siege on the enclave that almost gradually limits access to food, drinking water, medicine, basic materials or fuel to Gaza.
