WHO asks more countries to accept Gaza patients

Geneva: The World Health Organization on Wednesday called on more countries to accept and treat patients from the Gaza Strip after the medical evacuat...

Geneva: The World Health Organization on Wednesday called on more countries to accept and treat patients from the Gaza Strip after the medical evacuation of a group of mostly children to Jordan.

"Today, WHO led the medical evacuation of 35 patients, mostly children, from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by 72 family members," the UN health agency's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

"We are grateful to the government of Jordan for its continued support and for providing specialised care to critically ill patients.

"More than 10,000 people in Gaza still need medical evacuation. We urge more countries to step forward to accept patients for medical evacuations -- lives depend on it. There are many more waiting."

The agency has long called for expanded medical corridors, including the full resumption of the pre-war traditional referral pathway to hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.