加沙中部和南部的医院正处于“崩溃的边缘”,并在努力照顾不断涌入的病人持续的以色列-哈马斯战争无国界医生组织和世界卫生组织称。
两家医院----加沙中部的阿克萨医院和加沙南部的纳赛尔医院----不堪重负，被迫优先收治有生命危险的病人，根据无国界医生组织的说法该公司在两个医疗中心都有工作人员。
“我们日日夜夜都听到轰炸声，”无国界医生组织在加沙的一名组长Katrien Claeys在周一的新闻发布会上说。“在过去48小时内，100多名死者和400多名伤者被送到阿克萨医院急诊室。有些病人马上被送去做手术。”
“我们看到有感染和坏死组织迹象的病人，因为他们几天甚至几周没有更换伤口敷料，”她说。
无国界医生组织说，汗尤尼斯的纳赛尔医院是许多外伤和烧伤病人去的地方，它面临着源源不断的病人，“现在处于崩溃的边缘”
2023年12月4日，在以色列和巴勒斯坦伊斯兰组织哈马斯在加沙地带南部汗尤尼斯的持续冲突中，一名受伤的巴勒斯坦人在以色列袭击后被冲进纳赛尔医院。
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汗尤尼斯的无国界医生医疗协调员克里斯·胡克(Chris Hook)在新闻发布会上说:“医院几乎每小时都在接收多名重伤患者。“已经没有可用的空间了——这真是一个可怕的情况。每个人都真心担心接下来会发生什么。”
世卫组织表示，医务人员正在照顾的病人是医院设计容纳量的两到三倍。该机构描述了纳赛尔医院的“灾难性情况”，急诊室人满为患，病人在地板上接受治疗，卫生工作者短缺。
哈马斯恐怖组织和以色列之间的临时停火于周五早些时候结束，以色列恢复了对加沙的轰炸。在哈马斯释放了其武装分子在10月7日突袭以色列期间劫持的200多名人质中的100多人后，停火结束。作为交换，以色列从以色列监狱释放了200多名巴勒斯坦人。
一名以色列军方官员向美国广播公司证实，自周五以来，以色列军队已经包围了汗尤尼斯周围，地面部队现在正在加沙南部关键城市“内部和周围”开展行动。
与此同时，根据加沙哈马斯运营的卫生部和哈马斯政府媒体办公室的数据，至少有16，248人丧生，其中包括自周五临时停火结束以来的1，240人，自10月7日以来，有42，000人受伤。据以色列总理办公室称，在以色列，至少有1200人死亡，6900人受伤。
世卫组织总干事Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus，写于周二的X上，原名Twitter，该机构将医疗用品转移到位于埃及过境点的拉法的一个仓库。
谭德塞说，这延误了向无国界医生组织和联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处(近东救济工程处)的设施运送药物和其他物资，他们正在那里照顾病人。
“这场运动已经被推迟，并将继续挑战我们对加沙医院的运送，在广泛的武装冲突和有限的人员在地面上，”他写道。"我们需要持续、安全的医疗援助，为加沙人民提供医疗服务。"
就在一天前，世卫组织发布了声明呼吁保护加沙的卫生系统，回顾世卫组织称之为“可怕和危险”的局势，当时北部的希法医院和圣城医院都被上个月被迫停止运营在持续的以色列-哈马斯战争中。
“我们已经看到在加沙北部发生的事情。这不能成为南方的蓝图。随着卫生需求继续飙升，加沙不能再失去一所医院，”世卫组织周一的声明称。“在加沙南部，特别是在汗尤尼斯加强地面军事行动，很可能会切断数千人的医疗保健，特别是无法进入加沙南部的两个主要医院纳赛尔医疗中心和欧洲加沙医院，因为受伤和生病的人数增加了。”
根据世卫组织的统计，加沙正在运作的医院数量已经从36家减少到18家。世卫组织表示，在这些医院中，三家仅提供基本的急救，其余15家提供部分服务。
Hospitals in southern Gaza are at 'breaking point,' international organizations say
Hospitals in central and southern Gaza are at a "breaking point" and struggling to care for the influx of patients amid theongoing Israel-Hamas war, Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization say.
Two hospitals -- Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza and Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza -- are overwhelmed and are being forced to prioritize those with life-threatening conditions,according to Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has staff working at both medical centers.
"We hear bombing around us, day and night," Katrien Claeys, an MSF team leader in Gaza, said in a press release Monday. "In the last 48 hours, over 100 dead and over 400 injured people arrived at the emergency room of Al-Aqsa Hospital. Some patients were taken for surgery right away."
"We see patients with signs of infection and necrotic tissue, as they have not received a change of wound dressing in days and sometimes weeks," she said.
MSF said Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where many patients with trauma and burn injuries go, is facing a never-ending flow of patients and is "now at breaking point."
"The hospital has been receiving multiple severely injured patients nearly every hour," Chris Hook, MSF medical coordinator in Khan Younis, said in the press release. "There is no available space anymore -- it really is a terrible situation. Everyone is genuinely worried about what will come next."
The WHO said medical staff are caring for two to three times as many patients as the hospitals are designed to hold. The agency described a "catastrophic situation" at the Nasser Hospital with an overflowing emergency department, patients being treated on the floor and a shortage of health workers.
A temporary cease-fire between the Hamas terrorist organization and Israel ended early Friday, and Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
Since Friday, Israeli forces have closed in around Khan Younis, and ground forces are now operating "in and around" the key southern Gaza city, an Israeli military official confirmed to ABC News.
Meanwhile, at least 16,248 people have been killed -- including 1,240 since the temporary cease-fire ended Friday -- and 42,000 have been injured since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and the Hamas government media office. In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured, according to the Israeli prime minister's office.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general,wrote Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter,that the agency moved medical supplies to a warehouse in Rafah, which is located at the Egypt border crossing.
Tedros said this delayed the delivery of medication and other supplies to MSF and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) facilities, where they are caring for patients.
"The movement has already been delayed and will continue to challenge our deliveries to hospitals in Gaza, amid widespread armed conflict and limited staff on the ground," he wrote. "We need a sustained and safe flow of medical aid to provide care to people in Gaza."
This comes just one day after the WHO released astatementcalling for the protection of health systems in Gaza, recalling what the WHO called a "dire and perilous" situation when the Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals in the north were bothforced to stop operations last monthamid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
"We have seen what happened in northern Gaza. This cannot be the blueprint for the south. Gaza cannot afford to lose another hospital as health needs continue to soar," the WHO statement from Monday read. "Intensifying military ground operations in southern Gaza, particularly in Khan Younis, are likely to cut thousands off from health care -- especially from accessing Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital, the two main hospitals in southern Gaza -- as the number of wounded and sick increases."
The number of functioning hospitals in Gaza has fallen from 36 to 18, according to the WHO. Of those hospitals, the WHO said three are only providing basic first aid and the remaining 15 are providing partial services.
