Hospitals in central and southern Gaza are at a “breaking point” and struggling to look after the inflow of sufferers amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization say.

Two hospitals — Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza and Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza — are overwhelmed and are being compelled to prioritize these with life-threatening situations, according to Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has workers working at each medical facilities.

“We hear bombing around us, day and night,” Katrien Claeys, an MSF workforce chief in Gaza, stated in a press launch Monday. “In the last 48 hours, over 100 dead and over 400 injured people arrived at the emergency room of Al-Aqsa Hospital. Some patients were taken for surgery right away.”

“We see patients with signs of infection and necrotic tissue, as they have not received a change of wound dressing in days and sometimes weeks,” she stated.

MSF stated Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the place many sufferers with trauma and burn accidents go, is going through a endless stream of sufferers and is “now at breaking point.”

“The hospital has been receiving multiple severely injured patients nearly every hour,” Chris Hook, MSF medical coordinator in Khan Younis, stated within the press launch. “There is no available space anymore — it really is a terrible situation. Everyone is genuinely worried about what will come next.”

The WHO stated medical workers are caring for 2 to a few occasions as many sufferers because the hospitals are designed to carry. The company described a “catastrophic situation” on the Nasser Hospital with an overflowing emergency division, sufferers being handled on the ground and a scarcity of well being employees.

A short lived cease-fire between the Hamas terrorist group and Israel ended early Friday, and Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The finish of the cease-fire got here after Hamas freed over 100 of the greater than 200 folks its militants took hostage in the course of the Oct. 7 shock assault on Israel. In trade, Israel launched greater than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

Since Friday, Israeli forces have closed in round Khan Younis, and floor forces at the moment are working “in and around” the important thing southern Gaza metropolis, an Israeli army official confirmed to ABC News.

Meanwhile, at the very least 16,248 folks have been killed — together with 1,240 for the reason that non permanent cease-fire ended Friday — and 42,000 have been injured since Oct. 7, in line with Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health and the Hamas authorities media workplace. In Israel, at the very least 1,200 folks have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured, in line with the Israeli prime minister’s workplace.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, wrote Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the company moved medical provides to a warehouse in Rafah, which is positioned on the Egypt border crossing.

Tedros stated this delayed the supply of treatment and different provides to MSF and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) services, the place they’re caring for sufferers.

“The movement has already been delayed and will continue to challenge our deliveries to hospitals in Gaza, amid widespread armed conflict and limited staff on the ground,” he wrote. “We need a sustained and safe flow of medical aid to provide care to people in Gaza.”

This comes simply someday after the WHO launched a statement calling for the safety of well being techniques in Gaza, recalling what the WHO referred to as a “dire and perilous” state of affairs when the Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals within the north had been each forced to stop operations last month amid the continuing Israel-Hamas struggle.

“We have seen what happened in northern Gaza. This cannot be the blueprint for the south. Gaza cannot afford to lose another hospital as health needs continue to soar,” the WHO assertion from Monday learn. “Intensifying military ground operations in southern Gaza, particularly in Khan Younis, are likely to cut thousands off from health care — especially from accessing Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital, the two main hospitals in southern Gaza — as the number of wounded and sick increases.”

The variety of functioning hospitals in Gaza has fallen from 36 to 18, in line with the WHO. Of these hospitals, the WHO stated three are solely offering fundamental first assist and the remaining 15 are offering partial providers.