Gaza’s Hospitals and Homes Struggle to Keep Generators Running as Oil Shortages Bite
Medics say rotating blackouts and delayed maintenance are straining generators, while home electricity costs have risen about 20-fold, residents said.
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The electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip is not limited to power outages from homes and commercial interests, but tends to pose a direct threat to the remaining health services, with the breakdown of hospital generators and the shortage of oil, spare parts and fuel required for their operation and maintenance.
Lives at risk as power cuts plague Gaza’s few functioning hospitals
GAZA — As power cuts cascade through one of Gaza’s largest functioning hospitals and patients wait for treatment in sweltering wards, medics warn that shortages of engine oil and spare parts are causing generators to seize up, putting lives at risk.The crisis is spreading beyond hospitals, where soaring costs for oil and diesel are making electricity from neighbourhood generators increasingly unaffordable for families that depend on it.Gaza is…
As power cuts occur in one of the largest hospitals still in operation in Gaza and patients wait for treatment in suffocating heat infirmaries, health professionals warn that the shortage of oil for engines and spare parts is making generators stop working, putting lives at risk. Read also: Netanyahu allies renew appeals for the withdrawal of Palestinians from Gaza on the eve of the elections in Israel US Ambassador to Israel says there is no pl…
Gaza’s hospitals and homes struggle to keep generators running as oil shortages bite
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Haseeb Alwazeer and Dawoud Abu Alkas CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - As power cuts cascade through one of Gaza's largest functioning hospitals and patients wait for treatment in sweltering wards, medics warn that shortages of eng...
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