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  • 16 SEPTEMBER 2024
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Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital partially reopens dialysis unit

Gaza's Health Ministry announced today the partial reopening of the dialysis department in Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, after its closure by the Israeli army in April.

Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital partially reopens dialysis unit
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14:00 - 24/05/24 por Lusa

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"Despite all the atrocities committed in this hospital by the Israeli troops, the Gaza Ministry of Health is committed to providing health services to our people and rehabilitating the facilities affected by the attacks," explained in a video - recorded inside one of the dialysis department rooms with the first patients - Marwan Abu Seada, chief surgeon of this medical complex.

Abu Seada said that, at that moment, only five dialysis machines are working, but they are crucial for many of the patients in the north of the enclave who suffer from kidney disease after the closure this week of the only hospital in that area, the Kamal Adwan, which could provide such care.

The situation of the Gaza health system is increasingly critical, since 24 of its 36 hospital centers are out of service, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and those that remain operational are working at minimum levels.

The only generator that supplied electricity to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, on which 1.5 million Gazans depend, stopped working due to lack of fuel.

"The hospital needs 50,000 liters of fuel in the next few hours to avoid a health disaster," the director of this complex warned today.

The Kuwaiti medical complex of Rafah, in the south of the enclave, is also at its limit and could stop working in the next few hours due to the daily attacks by the Israelis, according to the director of the hospital center, Abu Yousef Al-Najjar, also located in the south of the Gaza Strip.

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