UN workers delivering aid to Gaza hospital describe 'bloodbath' in overflowing emergency department

By UN News

Dec 16, 2023 5:41 pm

UN workers delivering medical supplies to the Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December have described the emergency department as a 'bloodbath', with hundreds of injured people inside, and a constant flow of new patients.

According to the team, Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor, limited to no pain management is available at the hospital, and the emergency department is so full that workers must take care not to step on patients on the floor.

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UN workers delivering medical supplies to the Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December have described the emergency department as a 'bloodbath', with hundreds of injured people inside, and a constant flow of new patients.

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