The WHO said in a statement that the forced evacuation of medical personnel and patients will exacerbate the region’s current public health and humanitarian catastrophe.
The risk of death exists for a number of patients, including those who are very ill and frail and are kept in intensive care or on life support, patients receiving hemodialysis, babies being cared for in incubators, pregnant women facing challenging circumstances, and a variety of other patients.
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In the event that they are forced to relocate and are deprived of access to vital medical care throughout the evacuation process, their health may drastically worsen, and they might even perish.
Since there are more injured people than the medical facilities in Gaza‘s northern sector can handle, it is becoming more and more difficult to receive them. Some patients are receiving treatment outside on the nearby streets and in the hospital hallways due to Gaza’s lack of hospital beds.
Ordering the relocation of over two thousand patients to southern Gaza, where medical facilities are already at capacity and cannot handle a large increase in patient traffic, would be regarded as a death sentence.
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