Nasser Hospital’s evacuation would be ‘beyond disastrous,’ WHO official says

A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday that the evacuation of the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, which was attacked on Monday by Israel, would be “beyond disastrous.” “I do not want to think what the implications would be if NMC (Nasser Medical Complex) would become non-functional. Would be beyond disastrous for the crippled health system and its suffering population,” Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, told Anadolu. Peeperkorn noted that there are currently no plans for evacuation and warned that it should “never” happen, pointing to the hospital’s “critical importance” as the “largest referral hospital” in Gaza. “The attacks on Nasser Medical Complex yesterday are completely unacceptable,” he said. Peeperkorn also stressed […]