{"id":51256,"date":"2024-01-18T05:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=51256"},"modified":"2024-01-18T05:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:23:12","slug":"who-coordinator-describes-gaza-hospitals-in-rapid-deterioration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=51256","title":{"rendered":"WHO coordinator describes Gaza hospitals in &#8216;rapid deterioration&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization official on Wednesday described dire conditions in the Gaza Strip&#8217;s remaining hospitals, where patients are &#8220;waiting to die&#8221; due to extreme shortages of staff and supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical team coordinator Sean Casey said that during some five weeks he spent in the war-torn Palestinian territory, he saw hospital patients &#8220;every day with severe burns, with open fractures waiting hours or days&#8221; for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They would often ask me for food or water &#8212; that demonstrates the level of desperation that we see,&#8221; Casey told reporters at UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was only able to visit six of Gaza&#8217;s 16 functioning hospitals, out of 36 that existed before the war broke out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;ve seen personally is a rapid deterioration of the health system alongside a rapidly increasing level of humanitarian aid and diminishing level of humanitarian access particularly to areas in the north of the Strip.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/168618\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization official on Wednesday described dire conditions in the Gaza Strip&#8217;s remaining hospitals, where patients are &#8220;waiting to die&#8221; due to extreme shortages of staff and supplies. Emergency medical team coordinator Sean Casey said that during some five weeks he spent in the war-torn Palestinian territory, he saw hospital patients &#8220;every day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51258,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51256\/revisions\/51258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}