According to the latest data from the European Gaza Hospital (EGH), 8.750 surgical inpatient procedures were performed during the past year 2019.
Other surgical statistics for inpatient procedures include: 814 operations were described as highly skilled, in addition to 2206 major operations. And about 2442 intermediate surgery, while the total of minor operations amounted to 3.291 surgeries.
The year 2019 witnessed distinguished additions in the field of surgical operations conducted by the hospital’s medical-surgical teams in terms of the influx of medical delegations, which the Ministry of Health stepped up in cooperation with several international and local institutions to reduce the burden of traveling abroad to receive treatment.
It is noteworthy to say that EGH provides medical services to more than half a million citizens of the governorates of the southern Gaza Strip.