Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘tantamount to death sentence’ for patients: WHO
The HinduThe World Health Organization said Saturday that forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already overflowing hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip could be “tantamount to a death sentence”. Follow Israel-Hamas war, day 8 LIVE updates here “WHO strongly condemns Israel’s repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 inpatients in northern Gaza,” the UN health agency said in a statement. Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating… pic.twitter.com/lTFIsmLRe0 — World Health Organization October 14, 2023 “The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe.” Moving 2,000 patients to southern Gaza, “where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence,” the WHO said. The WHO said health workers in northern Gaza were now facing an “agonising choice” between abandoning critically ill patients, putting their own lives at risk by remaining on site, or endangering their patients’ lives while trying to transport them to southern hospitals “that have no capacity to receive them.