All 31 babies evacuated from Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital fighting serious infections: WHO

Palestinian medics evacuated 31 premature babies from Gaza City’s war-torn Al-Shifa Hospital in a high-risk operation, the UN has said, pledging to also move patients and staff who remain there.

The infants were taken in Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulances to a hospital in southern Gaza for assessment and treatment, the WHO said in a statement, with 11 in critical condition.

Doctors found that “all the babies are fighting serious infections due to lack of medical supplies and impossibility to continue infection control measures in Al-Shifa Hospital”, it said.