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| Gaza health facilities face closure due to fuel shortage: UN | |
| 2018-02-07 | |
...a formerly good idea gone bad... said on Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support. The shortage stems from a dispute between Gazoo's dominant Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", Islamist group and the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority (PA). Both signed a unity deal in October but have failed to finalise the details of political power-sharing. So far generators have stopped at three of Gazoo's 13 hospitals and 14 of its 54 medical centres, said Ashraf al-Qidra, the Hamas-appointed front man for the impoverished territory's Health Ministry. Officials at the affected facilities said they were directing seriously ill patients to other health facilities and operating at limited capacity. With Gazoo's electrical grid supplying only about four to six hours of power a day to Gazoo's two million people - a complicated crisis also largely rooted in the Hamas-PA rivalry - back-up generators are a lifeline for health care and sanitation facilities. At Durra Hospital for Children in Gazoo City, which normally treats up to 180 patients a day, many of its 90 beds were empty on Tuesday. Doctors said fuel ran out a week ago and services were operating at minimum levels. "We are working in life-saving mode," the hospital's director, Majed Hamada, told Rooters. He said doctors were providing primary health care and, in emergency cases, transferring patients to other hospitals after stabilising them. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 those are Paleo essential facilities. Hospitals and clinics, not so much |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-02-07 06:34 |
| #2 So, what happens to the command & control bunkers underneath the hospitals? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-07 01:27 |
| #1 I suppose the bonuses paid to fighters could be redirected for fuel. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-07 00:09 |