Gaza: WHO urges Israel to stop blocking medical evacuations as patients deteriorate
It will take five to 10 years to evacuate all the critically ill people from Gaza waiting for urgent treatment if the “excruciatingly slow” pace of approvals continues, the World Health Organization has said. More than 12 000 patients, including thousands of children, currently need urgent treatment, with many at risk of deteriorating and dying while waiting to be evacuated, said WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement on 2 January. “Too many lives remain at risk,” he said. WHO has urged …
