Shafaqna English- The World Health Organization(WHO) calls for sick people to be allowed to leave Gaza, in what it said would be a “game-changer.”
The UN’s health agency has supported the medical evacuation of nearly 7,800 patients out of the Gaza Strip since the war with Israel began two years ago — and estimates there are 15,000 people currently needing treatment outside the Palestinian territory.
The WHO has been able to evacuate only 41 critical patients since the US-brokered ceasefire. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s Representative in the Palestinian territories, called for all crossings out of Gaza into Israel and Egypt to be opened up during the ceasefire — not only for the entry of aid but for medical evacuations too.
Speaking via video link from Jerusalem, he told journalists in Geneva that two evacuations were planned for next week, but he wanted them every day and said the WHO was ready to take “a minimum of 50 patients per day.”
Sources: Arab News