Now that the Israeli security Cabinet has approved the Gaza ceasefire, the United Nations aims to launch a 60-day emergency plan to rebuild the Palestinian territory’s shattered health care system, which is estimated to cost at least $10 billion.
Only half of the 36 hospitals in the territory are functioning the World Health Organization said in a statement, citing an estimated 664 direct attacks on Gaza’s health care infrastructure since October.
The WHO plan calls for “scaling up existing health efforts, setting up temporary medical clinics and restoring essential healthcare services.”
“We have ordered temporary prefabricated clinics and hospitals which we will integrate into the existing facilities…integrating existing health facilities as part of that, to expand some needed bed capacity, address urgent health needs and health service delivery,” Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for Gaza. said in a statement.
Those badly needed medical supplies, along with food and fuel, could start rolling into Gaza as soon as Sunday, said Peeperkorn.
“The target is to get between 500 and 600 trucks in per day over the coming weeks,” he said.
This would be a “huge increase” over the 40 to 50 trucks that have been able to get into Gaza into recent months and be about the same level of aid that the territory was getting before the fighting erupted.
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