Summary
One of the biggest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, directed by Yousef Al-Akkad, whose testimony in Chapter 6 of From the River to the Sea describes its sixteen years under siege and its expansion under the 2023 war (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 456-474).
Details
- Before the war it had twelve ICU beds; under the influx of seriously injured patients it opened successive departments to reach fifty-four ICU beds, every bed occupied (lines 470-472).
- It lacked a CT scanner for more than eight months for want of a simple replacement part, because parts take months to move from the West Bank to Gaza (lines 460-462).
- Thousands of displaced people shelter inside it, needing water, food and electricity and putting pressure on its medical services (line 468).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Yousef Al-Akkad, Gaza