Hospitals in Gaza have less than 48 hours of generator fuel remaining, the Hamas run health ministry said on 24 October, a warning echoed by doctors at several hospitals and by the United Nations.
“We currently have 120 neonates who are in incubators, out of which we have 70 neonates with mechanical ventilation, and this is where we are extremely concerned,” Unicef spokesperson Jonathan Crickx said.
Hatem Edhair, head of the neonatal unit at Nasser Hospital in Gaza City, told the Guardian on 23 October that he had eight babies in intensive care. “Half of these children are on continuous positive airway pressure and oxygen machines. We have about 48 hours of fuel left. If the hospital runs out of fuel, half of these babies will die in less than 24 hours.”
Outside the Nasser, paramedics were attempting to refuel an ambulance with petroleum jelly normally used in first aid.
Iyad Abu Zahar, director of the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, told the Associated Press that its generator would stop “in the coming few hours.” At the Indonesian …