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Before the bombing, the MSF's hospital was the only active medical facility in the area. [5] It has been the only trauma center in northeastern Afghanistan. In 2014, more than 22,000 patients were treated at this emergency trauma center and more than 5,900 surgeries were performed.
The bombing of Baghdad during the initial stages of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces, known as "shock and awe" is an example of a coordinated surgical strike, where government buildings and military targets were systematically attacked by US aircraft in an attempt to cripple the Ba'athist controlled Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein.
In 2015, there were more than 300 attacks on medical facilities by Syrian and Russian forces. [9] From May to December 2016, medical facilities were attacked about 200 times by Russian and Syrian forces. [10] Hospitals in Aleppo were attacked multiple times. Before March 2016, more than six hospitals were attacked in the Aleppo Governorate. [9]
The most widely covered attack was the bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital. [33] On 23 November 2022, Russian missile strikes destroyed a maternity ward in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, in the town of Vilnyansk, killing a newborn baby. [2] On July 8, 2024, Russian cruise missiles attacked children's hospitals in Kyiv and Dnipro. [35]
Medical personnel have taken a heavy toll in the conflict, as many doctors have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, [219] and attacks by the Israeli army. [220] According to an update from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), doctors in Gaza have been conducting surgeries without the use of anesthesia or other essential surgical resources.
Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. [8] In the week before the attack, the IDF said that al-Shifa was "the site of a significant Hamas command and control center". [8] On 16 October 2023, Israel ordered Al Shifa Hospital, and the rest of northern Gaza, to evacuate. Because of insufficient beds in the southern ...
“It’s a medical treatment that’s been around for a very long time,” says Scott Gorenstein, M.D., director of hyperbaric wound care services at New York University Langone Hospital-Long Island.
The W.H.O. stated they had continued with patient evacuations, as Kamal Adwan's building was damaged, four ambulances were destroyed, and patients needed medical supplies, food, and water. [56] On 31 October, the UN stated a bombing on the hospital's third floor had destroyed critical medical supplies. [57]