Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital stopped operations, 4 cancer patients died

Subhi Sukeyk, director of the Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital in Gaza, said in a statement to the AA correspondent: “Four cancer patients lost their lives today as a result of the hospital being completely out of service due to fuel depletion.” . saying.

Sukeyk noted that patients lost their lives due to lack of necessary medical facilities. The hospital director reported that all patients from the Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital were transferred to the Dar es Salaam Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on November 1 that the Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital in Gaza had stopped providing services due to fuel shortages and attacks on the facility.

In the statement, “The Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital has stopped providing services as of today due to fuel shortages and numerous attacks affecting the facilities. “This is the only public hospital in the Gaza Strip where cancer patients can receive treatment, and now the lives of dozens of cancer patients are at serious risk.” Statements were included.

The UN Humanitarian Coordination Office’s statement during the day highlighted that 70 cancer patients were in danger of death after the only hospital treating cancer patients in the Gaza Strip was out of service.

The Turkey-Palestine Friendship Hospital, built by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in the blockaded Gaza Strip (2011-2017), consists of 8 interconnected blocks, 4 operating rooms, intensive care units, laboratories and 180 units in a total closed area of ​​33,400 square meters. It consists of rooms. (AA)