Gaza Health Ministry issues desperate appeal for electric generators to hospitals

Gaza: The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip Saturday made a desperate appeal for international relief organizations to provide electric generators to hospitals amid the ongoing Israeli war on the enclave. It said in a statement that it had relied on electric generators in the past nine months to power hospitals after the sole power station in the Strip was bombed and put out of service. It said a number of electric generators in hospitals had suffered irreparable damage and others were directly targeted by the bombing. "We expect that electrical generators in other hospitals, health centers and drug warehouses will stop as spare parts are denied entry for maintenance," it said, warning that stoppage of electrical generators means certain death for the sick and injured and the end of the health service in the Gaza Strip. The ministry said Israeli occupation forces deliberately destroyed generators at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Nasser Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital was still run on one generator after a main generator broke down, threatening a humanitarian catastrophe, the ministry said, adding that it had been in contact with international bodies, namely the International Committee of the Red Cross, since the beginning of the aggression, to provide new generators and spare parts, but to no avail due to Israel's "intransigence." Source: Jordan News Agency