GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The health ministry in the Gaza Strip has said that between 6 and 10 patients die each day while waiting to travel abroad for medical treatment.
According to the health ministry, 1,400 patients out of 20,000 have died since May 7, 2024, when the Rafah border crossing was seized by the Israeli army.
Health official Zaher al-Wahidi highlighted that the number of life-threatening cases reached 195 patients, all in extremely critical condition, pointing out that this number is the remainder of 300 cases originally classified in this category.
Wahidi warned that if those patients in critical condition are not evacuated soon, they would lose their lives.
The health official added that there are also 1,971 emergency cases, including 4,000 children and 4,000 cancer patients, who must be evacuated within weeks, warning that if their conditions deteriorated within a month, they would fall into the category of “extremely critical cases.”
He said that the Israeli opening of the Rafah crossing since February 20 does not reflect the gravity of the situation, nor does it address the number of critical cases losing their lives daily.
He noted that 490 patients were evacuated during the past month, a figure he described as “negligible.” “We need to evacuate 400 patients each day, or at the very least 200, in order to resolve the crisis of patients and the wounded within six months.”
