A minimum of 7,000 to over 11,000 Palestinian patients need immediate medical evacuations, Hanan Balkhy, the WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, has said at a meeting in Geneva with the Association of the Accredited Correspondents to the United Nations. Balkhy said that those patients who need evacuation are required to receive treatment in specialised hospitals. She also underlined the “significant” ripple effects on Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria as the immediate neighbours of the occupied Palestinian territory.
