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Tue 31 Oct 2023 1:57 pm - Jerusalem Time

Gaza Ministry of Health: Countdown started to the cessation of the main generators in the Al-Shifa Al-Taffy Complex and the Indonesian Hospital

The Ministry of Health announced the start of the countdown to the cessation of the main generators in the Al-Shifa Al-Taffy Complex and the Indonesian Hospital, and revealed that the number of martyrs in Gaza had risen to 8,525 martyrs, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women.


This came in a statement read by the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al-Qudra, who said that the Israeli occupation forces are still targeting the health system in Gaza, as this morning they directly targeted the Friendship Hospital, which led to the destruction of parts of it and caused a state of panic that affected cancer patients and medical staff. He called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take urgent action.


Al-Qudra also announced in the statement the start of the countdown to the cessation of the main generator in Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the cessation of the main generator in the Indonesian Hospital, which constitutes a cornerstone of the health system in the sector, as more than 400,000 citizens depend on it, as the generators will stop working tomorrow, Wednesday.


Al-Qudra called for urgent emergency interventions to save the health system with medicines, medical materials and fuel, calling on the “brothers in Egypt” to speed up the opening of the Rafah land crossing as usual, ensure the arrival of medical aid and fuel to Gaza’s hospitals, and ensure the exit of hundreds of wounded and sick people to specialized hospitals outside the Strip, as well as allowing Bringing medical delegations to hospitals in the Gaza Strip to rescue the wounded of the aggression.”


The Ministry of Health announced the start of the countdown to the shutdown of the main generators in the Al-Shifa Al-Taffy Complex and the Indonesian Hospital tomorrow, Wednesday. It also requested the ability of “all parties” to work immediately to limit the aggravation of the humanitarian and health disaster among hundreds of thousands of displaced people, as a result of the spread of epidemics and infectious diseases, including chickenpox, which is spreading. quickly among the displaced.


The official spokesman for the Ministry of Health renewed the Ministry’s calls for all students, graduates and retirees from medical and nursing specialties to join the hospitals of the Gaza Strip immediately and support exhausted staff. He appealed to all citizens to rush to the hospitals and donate blood urgently. He also called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene urgently and provide blood units. To the sector's hospitals.


Al-Qudra concluded his press statement by urging citizens to go to health centers or call special numbers to register their relatives of martyrs whose names did not appear in the ministry’s lists, or of those who are still under the rubble.



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