No Functional Hospitals Remain in Northern Gaza, WHO Reports

Humanitarian Ceasefire Urgently Needed to Reinforce and Restock Remaining Health Facilities

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that there are no longer any functional hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel, staff, and supplies.
Only nine out of 36 health facilities are partially functional in the whole of Gaza, all of which are located in the south.
The last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, Al-Ahli, is now only minimally functional with about 10 junior doctors and nurses providing basic first aid, pain management, and wound care with limited resources.
Patients at Al-Ahli have been waiting for surgeries for weeks and those who have been operated on face the risk of post-operation infection due to a lack of antibiotics and other drugs.
The WHO has called for a humanitarian ceasefire to reinforce and restock remaining health facilities, deliver medical services needed by thousands of injured people and those needing other essential care, and, above all, to stop the bloodshed and death.