'How are they going to evacuate them?': The search for solutions to Gaza's hospital crisis

Name: 'How are they going to evacuate them?': The search for solutions to Gaza's hospital crisis
Uploaded: 2023-11-08T04:30:30+00:00
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: As the need for medical care in Gaza soars, accessing working hospitals and health centres is becoming more and more difficult. Alternative solutions such as evacuating patients overseas and setting up field hospitals are under way, but may offer little hope if there is no end to fighting in the Palestinian enclave, experts say.

Issued on: 08/11/2023 - 05:30Modified: 08/11/2023 - 10:52

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Crowds surround a convoy of ambulances that was hit by strikes at the entrance of Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 3, 2023. © Stringer, Reuters

As the need for medical care in Gaza soars, accessing working hospitals and health centres is becoming more and more difficult. Alternative solutions such as evacuating patients overseas and setting up field hospitals are under way, but may offer little hope if there is no end to fighting in the Palestinian enclave, experts say.