MOH-Gaza: More than 49 thousand surgical operations during 2020
According to the latest report issued by the Department of Operations and Outpatient Clinics at the General Hospital Administration at the Ministry of Health for 2020, the surgical caders were able to conduct more than 49,000 surgeries.
2770 operations of them were described as highly skilled, in addition to 18911major operations, while the scheduled operations reached 2191.
The report indicated that the number of major operations amounted to about 14 thousand surgeries, while the number of intermediate surgical operations amounted to about 10569 surgical operations, and the number of minor surgical operations reached 13,633 surgeries.
Cesarean section operations, according to the report, amounted to about 8,188. Despite the Covid-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, the surgical operations have not been paused thanks to the full commitment of cadres to prevention and safety measures.
It worth mentioning that the hospitals in the Gaza Strip include an elite of distinguished surgical cadres, which helped in performing these surgeries inside Gaza since patients can’t leave the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli occupation crippling measures and the current Coronavirus crisis.