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Director of the Kuwaiti Hospital: Rafah Governorate is experiencing a major health disaster


Gaza – Together – The director of the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, Suhaib Al-Hams, confirmed that the health situation in Rafah Governorate is catastrophic, and that Kuwait Hospital is the only one in the center of Rafah, and it is crowded with patients and wounded.

He added in press statements that the amount of food, beds, equipment, and fuel in the hospital is not sufficient to continue operating for a long time.

Al-Hams pointed out that the hospital receives dozens of martyrs and wounded, and that there are difficulties in dealing with them due to the lack of medical capabilities and supplies, explaining that the only x-ray machine in the hospital stopped working as a result of the pressure of the cases.

Regarding the health situation in the city of Rafah, he said: Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, which is the only government hospital in Rafah, is among the areas that the occupation ordered to evacuate, and that there is no room to evacuate the hospital and
there is no room for the wounded or the displaced.

He called on the international community and the Arab and Islamic world to intervene urgently and immediately to stop the Israeli aggression against the city of Rafah.

Source: Maan News Agency