Fuel Crisis Halts Critical Care at Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza

Critical units at Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza have stopped working because fuel supplies are critically low. This situation endangers infants and ill kids who need electric devices to stay alive and receive treatment.

Generators provide power for oxygen makers and incubators used in emergency care. Hospital official Mohammed al-Sharif explained that these systems are essential for keeping newborns and other vulnerable patients safe during their medical procedures.

Al-Sharif noted that a lack of oil and spare parts has shut down generators for weeks. Israeli restrictions on entering supplies have worsened the problem, making it hard for staff to maintain necessary equipment for patient care.

Services like the neonatal ward and emergency room have ceased operations entirely. Laboratory work has also stopped, and plans to launch new departments are now on hold due to the ongoing inability to secure reliable power sources.

Staff members warn that babies are at highest risk since incubators need constant electricity. Without power, life-saving tools cannot function, leaving the most fragile patients without the critical support they require to survive their conditions.

Gaza’s health system is under immense strain with seventy percent of generators offline. The World Health Organization says only nineteen of thirty-six hospitals are partly working, while none can claim to be fully operational right now.

Essential drugs and diagnostic tools are scarce as damage to the sector reaches $1.4 billion. Over 1,800 facilities are destroyed or damaged, leaving medical teams with few resources to treat the growing number of injured civilians.

Fuel gaps threaten to cut medical services further for children in the region. Hospitals struggle to run basic equipment, creating a dire environment where even simple life-saving measures are becoming impossible to sustain for patients.