"Vicki Johnson, the Clinic’s chief community officer, told City Council that with $70 million in unpaid copays in 2024 and a slim 1.7% operating margin, the Clinic must collect more revenue to maintain services and invest in community programs.
'We are a business,' Johnson told City Council on May 19. 'Our margins are small and we’re trying to do the best we can to be lean.'"
#gaza #hospitals
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
"We’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one"
Amazing article by Caitlin Johnstone.
If I may add, the pattern is the IOF targeting hospitals before they obliterate the area they're in, so that the wounded will not be treated. It's extermination at its best.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/30/gazas-hospitals-are-the-target/
No functioning hospital remains in Gaza’s north
After a siege on northern Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital for two weeks, Israeli troops have forced its staff and patients to evacuate it, says its director, Dr Mohammed Salha.
It was the last functioning hospital in the north.
“There is no one providing any medical services now,” Salha said.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition and opposition Nippon Ishin no Kai have agreed to remove up to 110,000 redundant hospital beds across the country in an effort to reduce social security costs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/30/japan/politics/hospital-beds-reduction-agreement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #komeito #nipponishinnokai #hospitals
al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza is now out of service after an Israeli order was issued to evacuate the building.
There are still 97 people, including 13 patients inside the building, and the UN is planning a mission tomorrow to transfer patients to another facility.
With al-Awda’s closure, there is no remaining functional hospital in North Gaza – severing a critical lifeline for the people there.
While people start to look on malnourished and starving faces and bodies of Palestinians while occupation continues the crime against health services.
"The Israeli military has ordered the forced evacuation of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, the only remaining partially functioning hospital in the area, despite it being overwhelmed and operating under dire conditions amid the ongoing Israeli assault, the Ministry of Health said Thursday.
“Al-Awda is the only remaining partially functioning hospital in north Gaza,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
Between 1 and 22 May 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) documented 29 Israeli attacks on #healthcare in the Gaza Strip, further disrupting access to health care and overburdening #hospitals that remain partially operational.
According to #WHO, at least 94 per cent of hospitals in the #Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.
https://qudsnen.co/israeli-military-orders-evacuation-of-northern-gazas-only-partially-functioning-hospital/
#warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #gazagenocide
"Like many rural communities, it’s also a place where people have come to value government health insurance. The number of Gila County residents on Medicaid and the related Children’s Health Insurance Program has nearly doubled over the past 15 years...Today, almost 4 in 10 residents are on one of the plans for low- and moderate-income people or those with disabilities."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-cuts-arizona-county-trump-voters-conflicted/
Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting in New York, Dr Feroze Sidhwa said his patients in Gaza “were six-year-olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated”.
Sen. Chris Murphy just made an important point talking to Chris Hayes. If the #Republican cuts to #Medicaid go through, people won't just lose their coverage; a LOT of rural #hospitals will go out of business.
A wounded Palestinian sits while holding a child, at Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital, following an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, May 26. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
UK surgeon in Gaza says she’s ‘never seen so many blast injuries’
Burns “are very difficult to survive from even in the Western countries where there is no war and we have functioning hospitals and all the medical supplies at our fingertips”.
“So here, most of these burns are going to be unsurvivable.”
Israeli attacks on Gaza's hospitals
WHO warns most Gaza medical equipment stocks have run out
“We are at stock zero of close to 64 percent of medical equipment and stock zero of 42 percent of essential medicines and vaccines,” Hanan Balkhy, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told reporters in Geneva.
One of those "Hamas control and command centres", surrounded by Israeli tanks?
Wounded children receiving treatment in a hospital
Israel surrounds Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza
Satellite images reviewed by Al Jazeera show Israeli army vehicles surrounding the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
The vehicles are stationed 60 to 100 metres from the hospital building, where a number of medical staff, patients and companions are still sheltering.
The Israeli army has also surrounded al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, close to the Indonesian Hospital.
"What [photographer] Peter Dench said about my photos at the time was that they had this feeling of claustrophobia about them… that really resonated about what Covid was like. There was this incredible feeling of claustrophobia, not just because of the PPE that we were wearing, which was a lot more severe than we were used to. Because you were kind of stuck in the hospital a lot of time, you couldn't go home."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250522-covid-2020-an-intimate-look-at-health-workers-lives-amid-a-global-crisis
Al-Najjar’s husband and her 11-year-old son, Adam, were severely wounded and are receiving care at the Nasser Hospital’s intensive care unit [Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via Reuters]
Israeli forces target al-Awda Hospital, ambulances
There's artillery shelling in the vicinity of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.
The hospital’s director told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces had bombed the perimeter of the facility, with shrapnel scattering in the area.
He said the hospital has been targeted for days and also reported attacks against ambulances transporting the sick and wounded.
