AL-ARISH, Egypt, Jan 21 (Reuters) – About 1,000 individuals from Gaza have been handled in a French area hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt, its captain mentioned, offering look after some as well being infrastructure within the war-devastated enclave collapses.
The Dixmude, a French helicopter service, has been docked within the Egyptian port of al-Arish, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Gaza Strip, since November. The vessel is provided with wards, working theaters and 70 medical workers.
Practically 120 injured individuals have been hospitalized on board, whereas tons of extra have been seen for outpatient consultations, together with follow-ups on accidents and psychiatric points, mentioned Captain Alexandre Blonce, calling it an “unprecedented mission.”
Israeli forces launched all-out warfare to get rid of Gaza’s ruling Palestinian Islamist group Hamas after its militants burst throughout the border into southern Israeli cities and bases on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 individuals and taking 253 hostages again to the enclave. Over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed within the warfare.
Gazans have struggled to get medical care at dwelling as tens of hundreds have been wounded, with most of Gaza’s 36 hospitals not functioning, and people remaining working at far over capability, the World Well being Group says.
Israel has focused the biggest remaining hospitals, saying Hamas fighters are working there, one thing Hamas denies.
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These fortunate sufficient to cross into Egypt, like 16-year-old Ahmed Abu Daqqa, who was injured on Nov. 1, confronted lengthy waits for medical care.
Docs in Gaza “took out the shrapnel and put in two rods, however a month later they found extra shrapnel in my knee. They advised me they’ll deal with it later as a result of there have been too many surgical procedures,” he mentioned on board the Dixmude.
“I attempted many instances to get a switch” earlier than lastly crossing into Egypt, he mentioned.
He was then capable of endure additional surgical procedure the place the rods and shrapnel had been eliminated and a ensuing an infection handled, in addition to receiving bodily remedy.
He and others on board the French ship had been awaiting additional transfers to hospitals in Egypt or overseas.
Italy despatched an analogous floating hospital to the Egyptian coast in December.
(Reporting by Ahmed Fahmy and Mohamed Abdelghany, writing by Nafisa Eltahir; modifying by Mark Heinrich)
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