The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot, announced the complete cessation of operation of the hospital’s electricity generators. Due to the severe shortage of electricity.
The hospital director confirmed in statements to Al Jazeera that what they were warning would happen weeks ago, they are now fully experiencing, as they were forced to turn off the electrical generators and work to operate the equipment in the hospital on the available solar energy.
He explained that due to the fuel problem, the hospital was forced to cancel some departments and merge other departments with each other, in an effort to save energy consumption, as the neonatal department was merged with the pediatric intensive care department.
He explained that nurseries for children currently operate on solar energy, which means that these nurseries will stop working with the absence of the sun, and thus the lives of children will become greatly threatened.
In light of the fuel crisis, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot indicated that a decision was taken to give priority to providing services and health care to cases that have a greater chance of life, which means sentencing dozens of cases to certain death, which “confirms the desire of the Israeli occupation to carry out genocide against citizens in Gaza.”
He wondered why international, health, and relief organizations were silent about the crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and their disdain for all international agreements, which stress the necessity of providing protection for health centers and hospitals during wars.
Despite the difficult conditions, he stressed that Kamal Adwan Hospital – and the rest of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip – will continue to work until the last drop of fuel and the last pill of medicine.
