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Doctors have no news of the babies’ relatives due to the chaos in Gaza.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that it has successfully evacuated 31 premature babies from Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza and the subject of a massive Israeli military operation.
The babies were transferred with the help of the UN and the World Health Organization (WHO), which warns that hundreds of patients in critical situations are still waiting to be evacuated.
In a post on social media, the PRCS included photographs of ambulances that transported the babies to the Emirates hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of people have left Al-Shifa since the Israeli army moved in to carry out what it called “a precise and targeted operation against Hamas.”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), expressed his admiration for the Gaza health workers for their “heroic work.”
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The premature babies were evacuated from Al Shifa Hospital to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a social media post, the WHO stated that the 31 “very sick babies” They already receive “urgent care”” in a maternity hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza.
300 patients
He also pointed out that “they are planning more missions to urgently transport the remaining patients and health personnel outside the Al-Shifa hospital, awaiting guarantees of safe passage from the parties involved in the conflict.”
The WHO estimates that Nearly 300 critically ill patients remain stranded in Al-Shifa, where the Israeli army has been carrying out checks for some days.
Premature babies have weights ranging between 800 and 1,200 grams and the smallest is only 28 weeks old.
Dr. Abu Saada explained to the BBC that The hospital has no news of any family members, whom it is impossible to locate in the midst of the chaos of war.
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