A major Gaza hospital has suspended several services because of a critical fuel shortage in the devastated Palestinian territory, which continues to face a severe humanitarian crisis, it said. Devastated by more than two years of war, the Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza district of Nuseirat cares for around 60 in-patients and receives nearly 1,000 people seeking medical treatment each day. ‘Most services have been temporarily stopped due to a shortage of the fuel needed for the generators,’ said Ahmed Mehanna, a senior of?cial involved in managing the hospital. ‘Only essential departments remain operational: the emergency unit, maternity ward and paediatrics.’ To keep these services running, the hospital has been forced to rent a small generator, he added.
under normal conditions, Al-Awda Hospital consumes between 1,000 and 1,200 litres of diesel per day.
at present, however, it has only 800 litres available.