All hospitals in Gaza are suffering from severe fuel shortages that have caused power outages and hospital officials warn that many patients face death if they don’t get the fuel and other life-saving medications they need.
Many nurses and doctors have resorted to using light from their phones to take care of patients.
“We have hundreds of patients including the injured and those that are diagnosed with kidney failure and need electricity for their dialysis treatment,” Iyad al-Jabri, Al-Aqsa’s medical director, said in a statement on Friday.
“All the patients will be condemned to death. Especially those in the ICU, the incubators, and those relying on dialysis treatment,” he added.
Bombing has also left hospitals barely working and those that remain open are on life-support as they plead for fuel and medicines. An overflow of desperate patients is exacerbating the situation.
“We are calling on international organizations to send 50,000 liters [13,200 gallons] of fuel before there is an imminent crisis here,” added one hospital’s medical director.
