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UN fears collapse of southern Gaza's hospitals and the health system
9 January 2024 10:51 GMT
The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) fears that hospitals in the southern and central Gaza Strip will collapse the way they did in the north.
"What we're seeing is really worrying around a lot of the hospitals and an intensification of hostilities, very close to the European Gaza hospital," Sean Casey, WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator in Gaza, told a Geneva press briefing by video link.
"We are seeing the health system collapse at a very rapid pace," he added, saying that an estimated 600 patients had fled one facility.
He also said that the referrals of patients out of Gaza are "not working" and expressed "huge concern" about 66 health workers detained by Israeli forces.
Reporting by Reuters.