WHO estimates that there are now typically at any given time 'around 10,000 people who need to be evacuated... to receive the much-needed medical treatment elsewhere', spokesperson Margaret Harris says.
WHO estimates that there are now typically at any given time "around 10,000 people who need to be evacuated... to receive the much-needed medical treatment elsewhere", spokesperson Margaret Harris says.Since the complete halt to medical evacuations from Gaza on May 8, an additional 1,000 critically ill and wounded patients have been added to that list, Harris said. / Photo: AP
WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said on Tuesday that since Israel launched its military offensive in the densely crowded southern city of Rafah in early May,"there's been an abrupt halt to all medical evacuations".The United Nations health agency has long been pleading for Israeli permission to evacuate more critically ill and severely wounded people from Gaza.
Before the war in Gaza erupted, around 50 to 100 people left the enclave every day with medical referrals for complex treatments that were not available in the Palestinian territory, including for cancer. And since services in Gaza have been disastrously disrupted by the conflict, far more people need to leave to get services they used to access inside the enclave, like chemotherapy or dialysis, she said.WHO estimates that there are now typically at any given time"around 10,000 people who need to be evacuated... to receive the much-needed medical treatment elsewhere", Harris said.
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