Six months into Isreal-Gaza war, WHO says barely any functional hospitals in GAZA.

WHO-led multi-agency mission accessed Al-Shifa Hospital which was back bone of healthcare in North Gaza on 5 April . The report said and only a shell of the hospital remains.
The statement talks about destroyed wards, beds, dysfunctional equipment, scattered and decaying human bodies .

WHO further says out of the 36 hospitals in the area before war only 10 are somewhat functional .
Prior to the mission, WHO’s efforts to reach the hospital to medically evacuate and do an assessment were denied, delayed or impeded 6 times between 25 March and 1 April.

Like the majority of the north, Al-Shifa Hospital ­– once the largest and most important referral hospital in Gaza – is now an empty shell after the latest siege. No patients remain at the facility. Most of the buildings are extensively damaged or destroyed and the majority of equipment is unusable or reduced to ashes. The WHO team said that the scale of devastation has left the facility completely non-functional, further reducing access to life-saving health care in Gaza. Restoring even minimal functionality in the short term seems implausible and will require substantial efforts to assess and clear the grounds for unexploded ordnance to ensure safety and accessibility for partners to bring in equipment and supplies.

The hospital’s emergency department, surgical, and maternity ward buildings are extensively damaged due to explosives and fire. The western wall of the emergency department and northern wall of the neonatal intensive care department (NICU) have been torn down. At least 115 beds in what once was the emergency department have been burnt and 14 incubators in the NICU destroyed, among other assets. An in-depth assessment by a team of engineers is needed to determine if these buildings are safe for use .

The hospital's oxygen plant has been destroyed, leaving Kamal Adwan Hospital as the only source of medical oxygen production.

Numerous shallow graves have been dug just outside the emergency department, and the administrative and surgical buildings. Read the full statement👇

https://www.who.int/news/item/06-04-2024-six-months-of-war-leave-al-shifa-hospital-in-ruins--who-mission-reports