The site is located near Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians have fled from other parts of Gaza.
British's first A funded field hospital is being set up in the Gaza Strip, which will soon be able to provide services ranging from basic medical care to surgical procedures.
The tent hospital was sent from Manchester and arrived in Gaza a few days ago. According to the medical non-governmental organization UK-Med, once completed, it will be able to treat at least 250 patients per day.
Our field hospital has arrived in #Gaza. Our medical team in Gaza already sees about 200 patients a day in the hospital they built. The field hospital will complement this, allowing us to treat at least 250 people a day with additional surgical capacity. pic.twitter.com/apmY8HETiD
— UK-Med (@UKMed) March 19, 2024
International doctors and nurses, including many from the UK, will help at the hospital.
This new field hospital will replace the previously established temporary hospital. by UK-Med, which already sees about 100 patients a day.
It was built from local timber from destroyed buildings while trucks were delayed at the border.
🛠🏥Using timber from destroyed buildings, our medics in #Gaza built a makeshift hospital, built in just 10 days, to treat the sick and wounded while awaiting the arrival of the UK-Med field hospital. At this facility, the team sees more than 100 patients per day. pic.twitter.com/PJvfyhA8Km
— UK-Med (@UKMed) March 15, 2024
“The scale of the need is simply staggering,” UK-Med chief executive David Wightwick told the BBC.
“There are very few or services, and health services have been undermined to such an extent that if you are sick, if you are sick, if you are injured, you are in a very difficult situation.”
UK-Med also already operates five mobile health clinics along routes north of Rafah, dubbed GPs on Wheels, providing primary care.
These mobile clinics have now seen more than 1,200 patients, although many more need help in the besieged Gaza Strip, under bombardment as the war between Israel and Hamas rages into its sixth month.
UK-Med also sent a surgical team to assist at Al Aqsa Hospital, the only remaining operational hospital in the Gaza Strip. In total, more than 530 surgical procedures have been carried out so far, of which around a quarter have been on injured children under the age of 18.
Mr Whitewick said there were also cases of acute malnutrition in very young children . .
Basic supplies such as food and water have been difficult to obtain given the constant clashes between Israel and Hamas throughout the sector. Aid convoys have also been attacked by the Israeli military.
There have been several incidents of airdrops, but aid organizations have said this is an imperfect solution because it is difficult to control exactly where packages land — where they do not always land in close proximity to those who need it most.
Jordanian Air Force personnel airlifted emergency medical aid to a field hospital in the Gaza Strip. Photo: REUTERS
Humanitarian groups are warning of catastrophic conditions in the Gaza Strip, especially in Rafah, the southernmost point where about 1.5 million Palestinians live. were displaced.
Rafah is the last remaining refuge as fighting between Israel and Hamas has driven Palestinians from other parts of the strip further south to the Egyptian border.
Egypt, however, has not allowed refugees cross the border en masse, with Cairo instead emphasizing the need for Palestinians to remain on their land in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has repeatedly vowed to bomb Rafah in recent weeks, arguing it is the last Hamas stronghold that must be extinguished. But many countries have called on Israel to reconsider its plans, given how many people have fled to Rafah due to the ravages of the war.
If the Israeli military continues its offensive on Rafah, the UK-Med field hospital is likely to play a key role role in emergency medical care.
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