Dr Salah al-Jabari, a health worker at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, says the three hospitals in Gaza’s southernmost city are only able to provide immediate emergency care.
As the injured flood into these medical facilities, he told Al Jazeera, there are no intensive care unit beds left in the city where hundreds of thousands of people have fled as fighting has moved south in Gaza.
Meanwhile, al-Jabari said, access to Khan Younis, which has more medical centres that could provide intensive care, has been cut off.
“Now we are isolated here in Rafah,” he said. “More than a million people are displaced here, so this overcrowding can lead to the spread of infectious disease”.
He also warned that hospitals are running out of fuel. “We are lucky to get the most basic life support medicines”.
source: AlJazeera
