ICIR: Obliteration of healthcare system in northern Gaza puts civilians at grave risk

GENEVA (ICRC) – Repeated hostilities in and around hospitals have obliterated the healthcare system in northern Gaza, putting civilians at an unacceptably grave risk of going without life-saving care. 

Israeli attacks render all major northern Gaza hospitals out of service

Three partially functioning hospitals treating severely wounded patients and sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza are now out of service after coming under intense Israeli fire, a Gaza health official told Al Jazeera.

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza, home to some 2.3 million people, bears little resemblance to what it was a year ago.

Gaza’s healthcare situation ‘getting worse and worse’

Gaza’s “healthcare sector is still gradually deteriorating” nearly a year on since the war started, according to Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, the deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.

Pezeshkian tells UN: Israel’s barbarism in Lebanon must be stopped

‘We want peace for all and seek no war or quarrel with anyone’

NEW YORK – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that it is necessary that the world stop Israel’s carnage in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible and bring an end to its “desperate barbarism” in Lebanon before it put the region and the entire world on fire.

Palestinian healthcare workers are the true heroes

Since 7 October, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian healthcare workers and imprisoned others under inhumane conditions. The ongoing attacks on physicians, nurses, paramedics and aid providers, coupled with the destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure, are central to the ongoing genocide.

Health Ministry: Fuel crisis suspends hospital departments in Gaza

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said the continuing fuel crisis has been affecting the work of the remaining functioning health institutions in the enclave – in particular, the use of their generators, oxygen stations and refrigerators for storing medicines, Al Jazeera reported.

BEHTAB aims to make Iranian hospitals more resilient to natural hazards

TEHRAN –The UN-Habitat in Iran has successfully implemented the second phase of a project, dubbed BEHTAB, with the goal of enhancing Iranian hospitals’ resilience against natural hazards.

UK doctor: Gaza hospitals operating in 'Medieval' conditions

Gaza hospitals are reduced to practicing "medieval medicine", a British surgeon recently returned from the bombarded Palestinian territory said on Monday.

Red Cross opens new 60-bed field hospital in Gaza

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and 11 Red Cross National Societies are combining efforts to open a field hospital in Rafah, Gaza, to help address the overwhelming medical needs emanating from the ongoing conflict.

Hospitals to be equipped with 9,000 more beds

TEHRAN –Health Minister Bahram Einollahi has announced that hospitals across the country will be equipped with 9,000 new beds in the current Iranian calendar year that started on March 20.

Plight of patients at Gaza hospitals in the spotlight

Doctors across Gaza have described operating on patients without anaesthetics, turning people with chronic conditions away, and treating rotting wounds with limited medical supplies, according to the BBC.

Iran university opens office in Oman to draw medical tourists

TEHRAN – A southern Iranian university has opened an office in Oman seeking to draw more medical tourists from the Sultanate.

Iran attracts one million medical tourists in year

TEHRAN – The number of medical tourists visiting Iran is around one million people per annum, an official with Health Ministry has said.

Hospitals equipped with 95% Iranian-made systems

TEHRAN – Some 95 percent of equipment that has been installed in hospitals across the country is Iranian-made.

Thousands of projects completed in underdeveloped areas

TEHRAN – Some 53,000 development projects have been implemented in deprived areas across the country by Barekat Charity Foundation.