17-07-2025
WHO calls on more countries to receive patients from Gaza
WHO supervised the medical evacuation of 35 patients, most of them children, from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by 72 family members.
17 Jul 2025 07:34pm
Members of the Jordanian security forces carry a young Palestinian patient out of an ambulance on his way to receive treatment at a hospital in Amman, after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2025. - (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP)
GENEVA - The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on more countries to receive and treat patients from the Gaza Strip, following the medical evacuation of a group of patients, most of them children, to Jordan, the Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
"The World Health Organisation supervised the medical evacuation of 35 patients, most of them children, from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by 72 family members," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the X platform on Wednesday.
"We are grateful to the Government of Jordan for its continued support and provision of specialised care to critically ill patients," he added. Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the northern Gaza strip on July 11, 2025. - (Photo by AFP)
"More than 10,000 people in Gaza still need medical evacuation," he continued.
"We urge more countries to accept patients for medical evacuation - their lives depend on it. Too many are waiting," he added.
The organisation renewed its call for the expansion of medical corridors, including the full resumption of the traditional referral pathway to hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which existed before the war.
It added that at current rates, it will take years to evacuate all Gaza patients in need of treatment.
The World Health Organisation says that airstrikes and shortages of medical supplies, food, water, and fuel in Gaza have "nearly exhausted" the already under-resourced health care system, with many hospitals out of service and other facilities barely functioning. - BERNAMA Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
