Tuesday, January 6, 2009

No Ambulance victim may dead


Those injured in the hostilities in the Gaza Strip will die because the ambulance cars could not reach them. Such a statement the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Monday (5 / 1).

"The situation is dangerous and coordination of ambulance cars are very complex because of attacks and military operations that never-ending," said ICRC spokesman, Dorothea Krimitsas, the AFP in Geneva.

"Some of the injured have died while waiting for an ambulance car Palestinian Red Crescent," he said. "In some other cases, an ambulance car can not reach those who are injured on the field and shooting without stopping."

Head of Service Daruat the Gaza Strip, about 555 Palestinian residents have been killed and 2,700 injured since the start of Israel to stop Hamas rocket fire on December 27, Monday.

Health services in the region is under pressure, while many health workers can not reach hospitals and their emergency rooms and intensive care unit overwhelmed, according to the Red Cross.

At least two hospitals were running out of fuel for generatornya, the only source of electricity, Krimitsas said.

Organization is also concerned the supply of water in the coastal strip that has a solid. Krimitsas said, two of the 45 wells in the Gaza Strip does not freeze again after dihantam air attacks while Israel pump wells in eight others no longer work because of the power break.

"Half a million people, about a third of the region, threatened by loss of water at all," he said.

Erimitsas said, engineers are required to gain access to the installation of electricity in the damaged. One team of four ICRC medical staff, including a surgeon, has been allowed to enter Israel from the Gaza Strip, on Monday, three days after the suspension, said the aid agency.

They will help staff at the Shifa hospital in the region that perform complex operations against those who hurt. Medical team that also bring in tetanus vaccine for children and the blood supply, Krimitsas said.

"The hospital, the hospital has run out at all that the vaccine is a potential aid for patients with injuries requiring surgery or bad

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