The regional director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Hanan Balkhi, announced today, Monday, that the ongoing fragile truce in the Gaza Strip provides an urgent opportunity for action, emphasizing that the time has come to deliver humanitarian and medical aid immediately.
In a series of urgent statements, the regional director clarified that the organization's emergency plan focuses on restarting hospitals and supplying them with fuel and vital supplies to enable them to resume their life-saving services, after most of them have gone out of service.
The UN official added that the organization is also intensively focusing on evacuating the injured and patients who cannot receive treatment within the sector. She revealed that the numbers indicate that more than 15,000 are waiting for urgent medical assistance and evacuation.
The fragile truce provides an urgent opportunity for action, and we must deliver humanitarian and medical aid immediately.
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World Health Organization: The fragile truce in Gaza is an urgent opportunity... and a plan to reactivate hospitals and evacuate 15,000 injured.