The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said yesterday, Monday, that 180 displaced Palestinian women in shelter centers give birth every day in unsafe conditions, while about 900,000 displaced children suffer from the risk of drought, famine, and disease.
This came in a speech by the Ministry’s spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, during a press conference held at the Emirates Crescent Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qudra added that “50,000 pregnant women are in shelter centers without food or health care,” and that “about 180 Palestinian women give birth every day in unsafe and inhumane conditions.”
He explained that about 900,000 children in shelter centers suffer from the risk of dehydration, famine, digestive and respiratory diseases, skin diseases, and anemia.
He indicated that 70% of kidney failure patients are exposed to catastrophic health risks, as a result of bombing, displacement, and difficulty in accessing dialysis services, especially in northern Gaza.
Destruction of hospitals
Al-Qudra reported that Israel deliberately destroyed hospitals in northern Gaza, leaving 800,000 people there without health services.
He warned that the wounded, the sick, pregnant women, and infants in the northern Gaza areas were exposed to certain death.
Al-Qudra called on all international institutions to work immediately to urgently operate the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and hospitals in northern Gaza in order to save the lives of the wounded and sick.
Last Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that hundreds of wounded people were dying as a result of the lack of health services in the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, with the exception of the return of a limited number of them to work in the dialysis department in the complex since last November 27.