Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis
Ministry of Health facility with MSF staff
Nasser hospital is now the largest surgical centre in Gaza, as Al-Shifa hospital is not functioning anymore. MSF staff were forced to flee and leave patients behind after a shell struck the hospital in mid-February 2024 and Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the facility before raiding it.
In mid-May, following the evacuation order of the Rafah Indonesian hospital due to the Rafah offensive, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, MSF relaunched operations in Nasser, focusing on orthopaedic surgery, the burn unit, plastic surgery, general laboratory activities, physiotherapy and counselling department.
We are currently working in the Trauma/Ortho/Burn Unit of Nasser Hospital and are running two Operation Rooms, 65 inpatient beds and four beds in intermediate care. We are also running daycare surgery service (three days per week) for trauma and burn patients requiring small interventions that require anaesthesia but no hospitalisation for more than one day due to a lack beds in the inpatient department and the high bed occupancy rate since July 2024. In addition, we also managed an outpatient department for wound care, providing dressings and physiotherapy sessions for burn and trauma cases. Besides these activities, MSF supports mother and childcare in Nasser hospital, including teo paediatric wards and an outpatient department, delivery, pre- and post-partum wards, paediatric intensive care unit and a newborn intensive care unit, paediatric and maternity emergency rooms, mental healthcare.
Mid-June, MSF also opened an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre for malnourished children. Nasser’s maternity is one of the sole functional maternities in the South of Gaza. Moreover, MSF started supporting MoH with providing prophylaxis for close contacts. For hepatitis, we've seen a slight decrease in patients, but unfortunately are still receiving severe cases.
Al-Mawasi Health Post in Khan Younis
Private health facility with MSF staff
MSF is supporting CFTA (Culture and Free Thought Association) in providing pre- and post-natal care as well as sexual and reproductive healthcare. MSF is running general consultations, management of non-communicable diseases, malnutrition screening and treatment, dressings and physiotherapy. The most common illnesses and injuries seen in patients in Al-Mawasi include upper respiratory infections, acute diarrhoea, skin diseases, and hypertension.
Khan Younis Primary Healthcare Centre in Khan Younis
MSF facility with MSF staff
MSF provides OPD consultations, vaccination, mental health, ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre, midwife/sexual and reproductive healthcare, wound care and physiotherapy, and health promotion. Given the massive influx of population from Rafah into an already packed humanitarian zone, and the lack of health facilities to cover trauma needs, we are currently expanding to include a lightweight emergency service focused on stabilising and referring more complex cases while managing simpler cases.
Al Attar Primary Healthcare Centre in Khan Younis
MSF facility with MSF staff
The primary healthcare centre is located between Al Mawasi and Khan Younis to address the needs of the local population who have set up tents in the area, offering services such as general medicine, paediatric consultations, vaccination, emergency healthcare and wound care, antenatal and postnatal care, mental healthcare, health promotion, malnutrition screening and ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre, and other services based on MSF capacities and population needs.
Al Qarara clinic in Khan Younis
Private health facility with PalMed staff – No MSF staff
MSF is supporting PalMed, a diaspora-based Palestinian medical organisation, with medications, incentives and running costs, to provide sexual and reproductive health care and general medical consultations (wound dressing, skin infections, non-communicable diseases, etc.).
Al-Mawasi Advanced Primary Health Care Centre in Rafah
MSF facility with MSF staff
MSF staff are providing outpatient services, including general consultations, vaccination, reproductive health care, dressing, mental health services, and health promotion. The primary healthcare centre includes a 24/7 emergency room to stabilise and refer trauma patients. It also provides malnutrition screening and ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre.