Doctors Without Borders said that vital medical services at Gaza’s largest functioning Nasser Hospital “have collapsed”.
“The [Nasser] hospital’s surgical capacity is now almost non-existent, and the handful of medical staff remaining in the hospital must contend with very low supplies that are insufficient to handle mass casualty events — large influxes of wounded people,” MSF said in a statement.
The statement added that a patient died on Wednesday because there was no orthopaedic surgeon available.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief, said that the intense fighting in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital has prevented access to the medical facility.
“[H]undreds of patients and health workers have fled,” he said in a statement on Friday. “Currently 350 patients and 5000 displaced people remain at the hospital.”
