Gaza hospitals run the risk of becoming mortuaries Red Cross

The Red Cross says that hospitals in Gaza might become morgues if they don’t have electricity.

Gaza’s only power plant doesn’t have any more fuel and its back-up generators may also stop working soon.

Medical centers are very busy because Israel put a “complete siege” on Gaza and attacked the area with planes and weapons.

Hamas attacked southern Israel in a way that had never happened before on Saturday.

Israel has said that they will not give back electricity or permit essential resources and help to enter Gaza until Hamas frees approximately 150 people that they took as hostages during their attacks on Saturday.

As the electricity in Gaza decreases, the hospitals also lose power. This means that the babies in incubators and the elderly people who need oxygen are in danger. Fabrizio Carboni, the ICRC’s director for the region, said that kidney dialysis stops and it is not possible to take X-rays.

If there is no electricity, hospitals might become places where dead bodies are kept.

In Gaza, there are many injured people waiting outside hospitals in long lines, hoping to get into the emergency rooms. They are running out of important medical equipment and asking for people to donate blood.

People are going to hospitals to protect themselves from air strikes.

DrJustin Dalby, who has been helping people in Gaza for six months with the charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), told the BBC that the amount of people who got hurt was really huge.

He said that there was a lot of violence happening all the time, and everything was being destroyed everywhere. Day or night means at any time, whether it is during the day or during the night.

“If the electricity supply to a hospital gets cut off, it means that the lights would turn off. ” He said that devices like monitoring equipment, oxygen delivery machines, mechanical ventilators, operating theatres, and surgical equipment will not work without electricity.