Fears for hospitals
NZPA . Beirut One more day of heavy shelling and bombing could virtually wipe out hospital patient care in besieged west Beirut, a Red Cross official said yesterday.
At least nine of west Beirut’s 15 hospitals and 27 medical clinics were hit in Wednesday’s 20-hour bombardment, the longest and most devastating assault since Isreal invaded Lebanon two months ago in its campaign to wipe out .Yasser, Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation.
Other hospitals were damaged in earlier attacks, and at least four small hospitals closed because of a shortage of staff, water, medical supplies and fuel. “All possibilities to properly run hospitals are coming to an end,” said JeanJacques Kurtz, spokesman for the International Red Cross office in west Beirut. “Without fuel there can be no generators and then the doctors will have to read Xrays by candlelight,” he said. Muncipal water supplies to west Beirut have been turned off for nearly two weeks and hospitals rely on saline well water.
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