UAE treats over 90,000 patients in Gaza through Operation Chivalrous Knight 3
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The United Arab Emirates is supporting healthcare in Gaza through Operation Chivalrous Knight 3, sending aid and treating patients both within Gaza and in UAE hospitals.
Since launching the operation on November 5, 2023, the UAE field hospital in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, has treated over 54,000 people. The UAE also dispatched 1,903 tonnes of medicines and supplies to hospitals in Gaza, working with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Recognizing that around 30 hospitals are currently non-operational, the UAE established two medical centres offering care to roughly 4,000 patients monthly, and deployed a mobile clinic to reach displaced people. Beyond Gaza, a UAE floating hospital in Al Arish, Egypt, has treated over 35,000 Palestinian patients. The UAE facilitated the evacuation of approximately 3,000 patients to hospitals in the UAE, and provided over 600,000 polio vaccine doses.
Additional support included 27 ambulances, prescription glasses for 10,000 people, and prosthetic limbs for 203 amputees.
