Probably the most susceptible sufferers at al-Shifa Hospital – dozens of prematurely born infants in crucial situation – have been evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip.
Of the 39 infants who had been left with out incubators when al-Shifa Hospital was left in need of gasoline and medical provides after Israeli forces raided on Wednesday, 31 have made it out.
Mohammed Zaqout, director-general of hospitals in Gaza, instructed journalists that “all 31 untimely infants in al-Shifa Hospital… have been evacuated” together with three medical doctors and two nurses, and “preparations are beneath method” for them to enter Egypt.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, mentioned the infants had been on their solution to southern Gaza hospitals in six Palestinian Crimson Crescent ambulances, in an effort coordinated with the World Well being Group and the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the group mentioned in a publish on its Fb web page.
Israeli forces ordered medical doctors, sufferers and displaced folks at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate the medical compound, forcing some to go away by gunpoint, medical doctors and Palestinian officers instructed Al Jazeera on Saturday.
A World Well being Group staff that visited the hospital on Saturday reported that there have been nonetheless tons of of sufferers there, together with many in extraordinarily crucial situation, trauma sufferers with severely contaminated wounds, and others with spinal accidents who’re unable to maneuver.
“Sufferers and well being workers with whom they spoke had been terrified for his or her security and well being, and pleaded for evacuation,” the company mentioned, describing al-Shifa as a dying zone.
Medical doctors mentioned that 4 infants had died throughout the raid.
The infants had been transferred to the south of Gaza “in preparation for his or her switch to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah” the Palestinian Crimson Crescent mentioned.
Later within the day Ashraf Al-Qidra, spokesperson for the Well being Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, instructed a information convention that the infants had been moved to Tal Alsultan Hospital in Rafah and shall be despatched to Egyptian hospitals with their households tomorrow.
