Infectious diseases and epidemics are devastating the people of Gaza. The numbers are frightening

The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced that there are more than one million cases of infectious diseases as a result of displacement in the Strip, which has been exposed to a devastating Israeli war for more than half a year.

The office said, in an update on the most important statistics of the aggression against the Gaza Strip, that there are one million and 89 thousand cases of infectious diseases due to displacement, and 8 thousand cases of hepatitis.

World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris stated during an interview with Anadolu Agency that only 10 hospitals out of 36 in the Gaza Strip are partially functioning, 6 of which are located in the south of the Strip and 4 in the north.

She added that at least 15 malnourished children arrive at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza every day.

Harris pointed out that there are 18 emergency medical teams stationed in southern Gaza, and that only two field hospitals out of three hospitals operate there.

She pointed out that 614,000 cases of upper respiratory infections and 330,000 cases of diarrhea had been recorded among displaced people in shelter centers since last October.

It also talked about monitoring 83,500 cases of scabies, 48,000 skin rashes, 7,300 cases of chicken pox, and jaundice in 21,300 people.

Harris pointed to nine thousand patients in Gaza who need to be evacuated to receive treatment, including more than 6,000 patients with psychological trauma and 2,000 patients suffering from serious chronic diseases such as cancer. (Arabi 21)