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Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Gaza-You were not excluded Israeli war On a strip Gaza Patients in hospitals, not even “premature” newborns, as their lives are threatened by the power outage and the depletion of fuel in Gaza.
In Nasser Medical Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, the lives of a number of these “preterm infants” are now threatened with death as a result of Israeli intransigence and the continued prevention of Bringing fuel into Gaza Thus obstructing the operation of oxygen devices that help save children born in war and the sound of brutal bombing.
Director of the Nursery Department at Nasser Medical Complex, Hatem Dhair, said that there was an increase in the percentage of premature babies during the war due to the displacement of people from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south, and an increase in the infection rate among children due to the lack of hygiene procedures and a shortage of children’s bedding, sterilizers, and medical equipment.
Appeal to international organizations
In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Dhair appealed to international organizations, led by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to intervene urgently to save the lives of these children.
In this scene, the child’s mother, “Warda,” stands with bewildered eyes, watching her only daughter’s pulse, and says with a loud sigh, “My daughter was born with great difficulty at the beginning of the eighth month, and I thank God very much for her survival, and she is alive and well now.”
She expressed her fears that she would lose her baby due to the lack of fuel, which would lead to a power outage. “All I fear is that my daughter will suffocate,” she said.
Difficulty communicating
As for Dr. Walaa Al-Khatib, she said as she inspected the premature babies one by one, “We monitor them at every moment and monitor their pulse as we monitor ourselves, and we fear for them as we fear for ourselves.”
A spokeswoman for Al Jazeera Net added, “We find it difficult to communicate and communicate with parents of premature babies due to the cut off of communications and the Internet. We need clothes, milk, and medicines for the children, but we cannot provide them.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the occupation bombed the only electricity generator that was operating in the Gaza Strip, warning of a real danger to the lives of all patients and wounded in the Strip’s hospitals.
The death of 3 premature babies
The Ministry of Health said in a press statement on Friday: “We lost 50 patients in the past days, including 4 kidney patients and 3 premature babies due to the outage of oxygen and electricity.”
The medical teams were able to evacuate 31 premature babies who were being monitored in the incubators of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex before it was besieged and stormed by occupation soldiers.
The Ministry of Health said, in a statement on Sunday, that 31 newborns were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital to Tal Al-Sultan Hospital in the city of Rafah in the south, in preparation for their transfer on Monday to Egypt.
UNICEF had warned that the lives of one million Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip were on the brink of collapse, in light of the almost complete collapse of medical services and health care.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that children’s hospitals in Gaza were not spared from the Israeli bombing, including Al-Nasr Hospital, which was severely damaged, and Al-Rantisi Hospital, which was forced to stop its operations, in the northern Gaza Strip.
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