Doctors say 22,000 Gazans are sheltering at European Gaza Hospital.
'Unimaginable situation': Doctors report malnourished patients dying from infections at Gaza hospitalPalestinians recite a prayer over the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli bombardment, at the morgue of the European hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Mar. 23, 2024.
"The situation is unimaginable," Dr. Konstantina Ilia Karydi, an anesthetist with the team, said in a statement. "This hospital had an original capacity of just 200 beds and, at the moment, it has expanded to 1,000 beds. There are around 22,000 people that have been displaced from other parts of Gaza sheltering in the corridors and in tents inside the hospital, because people feel that it's safer to be here than anywhere else.
"One day we wanted to do a plate and screw, which is a standard procedure for bone fixation, but we didn't have the right equipment," he said in a statement. "Sometimes we've also lacked gauze which is a basic supply for surgery. We worked around the challenges we faced and managed in a different way, but the staff here are overwhelmed."
MORE: Famine is 'imminent' in northern Gaza, with many facing 'catastrophic' levels of hunger: Report United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East , the main aid agency operating inside Gaza,on Sunday that Israeli authorities informed the U.N. they would no longer approve any UNRWA food convoys to northern Gaza. The agency has come under intense scrutiny since the end of January when Israel presented a dossier alleging 12 members of UNRWA's staff participated in the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, leading to several countries pausing UNWRA funding.
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