According to representatives of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, the health system in Gaza is collapsing, while the needs for medical services are increasing due to the continuation of hostilities. It was noted that more than 75% of primary care facilities and 79% of hospitals in the sector had stopped operating.
The occupation army considered hospitals and medical institutions a main target for its aggression and attacks, and in fact it bombed and stormed most of the hospitals operating in the Gaza Strip. The threat is not limited to hospitals, but to the entire medical care system in the Gaza Strip.
In these circumstances, Palestinian medical institutions are making strenuous efforts to save the wounded and provide medical care to the sick, while they must deal with more than that in the next stage, as the war and news of massacres hide other horrific facts, adding tens of thousands of wounded who need rehabilitation in the next period. What comes next is after treatment, not to mention the situation of tens of thousands of patients with chronic diseases whose health depends on health follow-up and permanent treatment, pregnant women, mothers and their children who need special health care after diseases have spread in the shelter centers where they live under the worst health conditions.
These institutions are working to develop new responses, in addition to their existing services in providing direct health care in their centers, as they operate initiatives to deliver medical services to the wounded who were discharged to their homes and shelter centers, as well as through local mobile clinics to provide primary care and receive the injured in areas where hospitals were destroyed. And also on initiatives to establish health facilities that support women and groups whose needs are marginalized in light of the war. These institutions have operated and continue to operate according to the philosophy of social responsibility and commitment to society in all its segments.