Power is a significant concern in the seven specialist units in Gaza treating premature babies, providing essential assistance for breathing and critical support, especially in cases where their organs have not fully developed.
Premature babies, intensive care and kidney patients' lives under threat after Gaza’s sole power plant operations halted over an Israeli ban on fuel imports into the Palestinian territory of Gaza. / Photo: AA
Hospitals face a dire lack of medicines, fuel and water not only for the thousands wounded in more than two weeks of Israeli offensive in Gaza but also for routine patients. Amid widespread electricity cuts, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday that hospitals had already run out of fuel for generators.Twenty aid trucks crossed from Egypt into Gaza on Saturday but there was no fuel in the consignment.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that 130 premature babies were in danger of dying due to the lack of fuel.
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