21 patients died after Gaza hospital came under siege: WHO – Dainik Savera Times

Geneva. Twenty-one patients have died since Israeli Defense Forces raided al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, for the second time on March 18, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. “Hostilities continue around the hospital,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on the social media platform X, citing a health worker inside al-Shifa. More than 100 patients, including serious patients, are trapped inside the hospital.

“Many people have infected wounds and are dehydrated,” Tedros said. Israeli troops, who launched the latest raid on the hospital in mid-March, said in a statement that they were coming to al-Shifa to thwart terrorism. Accurate operations are continuing in the hospital. The WHO chief expressed concern over the deteriorating conditions in the hospital, saying that infectious diseases were spreading due to extremely poor sanitation and lack of water.

“Food is extremely limited – potentially life-threatening for diabetic patients whose condition is worsening,” he warned. The UN health agency urged Israel to facilitate access and humanitarian corridors. So that he could carry out life-saving transfers of patients.